The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessing...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
This paper proposes an approach aimed at obviating empty answers for a family of conjunctive queries involving Boolean or fuzzy value constraints. Contrary to the approaches based ...
Patrick Bosc, Carmen Brando, Allel HadjAli, H&eacu...
Although approximate query processing is a prominent way to cope with the requirements of data analysis applications, current database systems do not provide integrated and compre...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...