Matching dependencies were recently introduced as declarative rules for data cleaning and entity resolution. Enforcing a matching dependency on a database instance identifies the ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Solmaz Kolahi, Laks V. S. La...
Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
We address the problem of answering conjunctive queries over knowledge bases, specified by sets of first-order sentences called tuple-generating dependencies (TGDs). This problem i...
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
We consider the problem of finding and ranking paths in semistructured data without necessarily knowing its full structure. The query language we adopt comprises conjunctions of r...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter ...