In many cases, a logic program can be divided into two parts, so that one of them, the \bottom" part, does not refer to the predicates de ned in the \top" part. The \bot...
When a database is defined as views over autonomous sources, inconsistencies with respect to global integrity constraints are to be expected. This paper investigates the possibili...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are the natural extension of integrated information systems. Conventionally, a single integrating system manages an integrated schema,...
Ralf Heese, Sven Herschel, Felix Naumann, Armin Ro...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
Clio is a joint research project between the University of Toronto and IBM Almaden Research Center started in 1999 to address both foundational and systems issues related to the ma...