Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require user-specific distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest - metrics that are ha...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
ConQueSt is a constraint-based querying system devised with the aim of supporting the intrinsically exploratory nature of pattern discovery. It provides users with an expressive c...
Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Claudio Lucches...
The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. We study the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, whe...
We are interested in the problem of validating the consistency of integrity constraints when data is modi ed. In particular, we consider how constraints can be checked with only p...
Jennifer Widom, Ashish Gupta, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeff...