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VLDB
1994
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
DLOG
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Taming the Infinite Chase: Query Answering under Expressive Relational Constraints
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Andrea Calì, Georg Gottlob, Michael Kifer
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JAPLL
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Reasoning with prioritized information by iterative aggregation of distance functions
We introduce a general framework for reasoning with prioritized propositional data by aggregation of distance functions. Our formalism is based on a possible world semantics, wher...
Ofer Arieli
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DBPL
2005
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Complexity and Approximation of Fixing Numerical Attributes in Databases Under Integrity Constraints
Consistent query answering is the problem of computing the answers from a database that are consistent with respect to certain integrity constraints that the database as a whole ma...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
ICCS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Distinguishing Answers in Conceptual Graph Knowledge Bases
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
Nicolas Moreau, Michel Leclère, Madalina Cr...