We introduce a general framework that is based on distance semantics and investigate the main properties of the entailment relations that it induces. It is shown that such entailm...
A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
Abstract. The problem of answering queries using views has been studied extensively due to its relevance in a wide variety of data-management applications. In these applications, w...
The Closed-World Assumption (CWA) on databases expresses that an atom not in the database is false. A more appropriate assumption for databases that are sound but partially incomp...
A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...