The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
We study and present our findings on two closely related problems on xpath rewriting using views when both the view and the query are tree patterns involving /,// and []. First, g...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
We investigate the problem of incremental maintenance of an SQL view in the face of database updates, and show that it is possible to reduce the total time cost of view maintenanc...