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ICDT
2001
ACM
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14 years 26 days ago
On Answering Queries in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns
In information-integration systems, source relations often have limitations on access patterns to their data; i.e., when one must provide values for certain attributes of a relatio...
Chen Li, Edward Y. Chang
VLDB
1997
ACM
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14 years 17 days ago
Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Vasilis Vassalos, Yannis Papakonstantinou
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Query rewriting and answering under constraints in data integration systems
In this paper we address the problem of query answering and rewriting in global-as-view data integration systems, when key and inclusion dependencies are expressed on the global i...
Andrea Calì, Domenico Lembo, Riccardo Rosat...
PODS
2003
ACM
113views Database» more  PODS 2003»
14 years 8 months ago
Materializing views with minimal size to answer queries
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find, in advance, a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such ...
Rada Chirkova, Chen Li
DAGSTUHL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Query Answering in Inconsistent Databases
In this chapter, we summarize the research on querying inconsistent databases we have been conducting over the last five years. The formal framework we have used is based on two c...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Jan Chomicki