Query folding is a technique for determining how a query may be answered using a given set of resources, which may include materialized views, cached results of previous queries, ...
We address the problem of minimal-change integrity maintenance in the context of integrity constraints in relational databases. We assume that integrity-restoration actions are li...
Abstract. We address the problem of answering queries using expressive symmetric inter-schema constraints which allow to establish mappings between several heterogeneous informatio...
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
In the context of relational as well as deductive databases, correct and efficient integrity checking is a crucial issue, as, without any guarantee of data consistency, the answers...