We introduce a general framework that is based on distance semantics and investigate the main properties of the entailment relations that it induces. It is shown that such entailm...
We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitio...
Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Corté...
We study peer-to-peer ðP2PÞ data integration, where each peer models an autonomous system that exports data in terms of its own schema, and data interoperation is achieved by me...
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lem...
Hypothetical queries are queries embedding hypotheses about the database. The embedded hypothesis in a hypothetical query indicates, so to say, a state of the database intended for...
In this paper we give a robust logical and computational characterisation of peer-to-peer (p2p) database systems. We first define a precise model-theoretic semantics of a p2p sys...
Enrico Franconi, Gabriel M. Kuper, Andrei Lopatenk...