A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
Abstract. We present the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that uses answer set programming to compute consistent answers to first-order queries posed to relational databases ...
We consider multiagent systems situated in unpredictable environments. Agents viewed as abductive logic programs with abducibles being literals the agent could sense or receive fro...
The problem of answering queries posed to a peer who is a member of a peer-to-peerdataexchangesystemisstudied.Theanswershavetobeconsistentwrt to both the local semantic constraints...