In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and data warehouses. We consider its simplest ...
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
The weak instance model is a framework to consider the relations in a database as a whole, regardless of the way attributes are grouped in the individual relations. Queries and upd...
Nowadays, one of the main research issues of great interest is the efficient tracking of mobile objects that enables the effective answering of spatiotemporal queries. This line o...
Katerina Raptopoulou, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yan...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...