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ICDT
2007
ACM
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Containment of Conjunctive Queries over Databases with Null Values
Abstract. We study containment of conjunctive queries that are evaluated over databases that may contain tuples with null values. We assume the semantics of SQL for single block qu...
Carles Farré, Werner Nutt, Ernest Teniente,...
ICDT
2007
ACM
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Ask a Better Question, Get a Better Answer A New Approach to Private Data Analysis
Cryptographic techniques for reasoning about information leakage have recently been brought to bear on the classical problem of statistical disclosure control – revealing accurat...
Cynthia Dwork
ICDT
2007
ACM
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Query Evaluation on a Database Given by a Random Graph
We consider random graphs, and their extensions to random structures, with edge probabilities of the form βn−α , where n is the number of vertices, α, β are fixed and α >...
Nilesh N. Dalvi
ICDT
2007
ACM
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Consistent Query Answering: Five Easy Pieces
Abstract. Consistent query answering (CQA) is an approach to querying inconsistent databases without repairing them first. This invited talk introduces the basics of CQA, and disc...
Jan Chomicki
ICDT
2007
ACM
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Axiomatizing the Logical Core of XPath 2.0
The first aim of this paper is to present the logical core of XPath 2.0: a logically clean, decidable fragment, which includes most navigational features of XPath 2.0 (complex co...
Balder ten Cate, Maarten Marx
ICDT
2007
ACM
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On the Expressiveness of Implicit Provenance in Query and Update Languages
Abstract. Information concerning the origin of data (that is, its provenance) is important in many areas, especially scientific recordkeeping. Currently, provenance information mu...
Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Stijn Vansummeren
ICDT
2007
ACM
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Combining Temporal Logics for Querying XML Documents
Close relationships between XML navigation and temporal logics have been discovered recently, in particular between logics LTL and CTL⋆ and XPath navigation, and between the µ-c...
Marcelo Arenas, Pablo Barceló, Leonid Libki...
ICDT
2007
ACM
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Combining Incompleteness and Ranking in Tree Queries
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...
Benny Kimelfeld, Yehoshua Sagiv
ICALP
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Constant-Round Private Database Queries
We consider several private database query problems. The starting point of this work is the element rank problem: the server holds a database of n integers, and the user an integer...
Nenad Dedic, Payman Mohassel