In the traditional data exchange setting, source instances are restricted to be complete in the sense that every fact is either true or false in these instances. Although natural ...
The class of unions of conjunctive queries (UCQ) has been shown to be particularly well-behaved for data exchange; its certain answers can be computed in polynomial time (in terms...
XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...
In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...