We describe the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that computes consistent answers to Datalog queries with negation posed to relational databases that may be inconsistent with...
We present a simple, yet general top-down query answering procedure for logic programs managing uncertainty. The main features are: (i) the certainty values are taken from a certai...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Abstract—After decades of effort working on database performance, the quality and the usability of database systems have received more attention in recent years. In particular, t...