In this paper we consider the problem of the logical characterization of the notion of consistent answer in a relational database that may violate given integrity constraints. Thi...
Marcelo Arenas, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Jan Chomicki
We identify one of the incompatibility problems associated with atomic commit :protocols that prevents them from being used together and weiderive a correctness criterion that cap...
We give a polymorphic account of the relational algebra. We introduce a formalism of \type formulas" speci cally tuned for relational algebra expressions, and present an algo...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
Despite advances in recent years in the area of mandatory access control in database systems, today's information repositories remain vulnerable to inference and data associa...
Steven Dawson, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, P...