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...
Many aspects of the data integration problem have been considered in the literature: how to match schemas across different data sources, how to decide when different records refer...
How-To queries answer fundamental data analysis questions of the form: “How should the input change in order to achieve the desired output”. As a Reverse Data Management probl...
Given a set of Datalog rules, facts, and a query, answers to the query can be inferred bottom-up starting with the facts or top-down starting with the query. For efficiently answe...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...