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On Answering Queries in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns

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On Answering Queries in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns
In information-integration systems, source relations often have limitations on access patterns to their data; i.e., when one must provide values for certain attributes of a relation in order to retrieve its tuples. In this paper we consider the following fundamental problem: can we compute the complete answer to a query by accessing the relations with legal patterns? The complete answer to a query is the answer that we could compute if we could retrieve all the tuples from the relations. We give algorithms for solving the problem for various classes of queries, including conjunctive queries, unions of conjunctive queries, and conjunctive queries with arithmetic comparisons. We prove the problem is undecidable for datalog queries. If the complete answer to a query cannot be computed, we often need to compute its maximal answer. The second problem we study is, given two conjunctive queries on relations with limited access patterns, how to test whether the maximal answer to the rst query ...
Chen Li, Edward Y. Chang
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where ICDT
Authors Chen Li, Edward Y. Chang
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