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EDBT
2008
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
Data exchange in the presence of arithmetic comparisons
Data exchange is the problem of transforming data structured under a schema (called source) into data structured under a different schema (called target). The emphasis of data exc...
Foto N. Afrati, Chen Li, Vassia Pavlaki
VLDB
1994
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
15 years 8 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
15 years 6 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
ICDT
2007
ACM
105views Database» more  ICDT 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimization of Query Plans in the presence of Access Limitations
We consider the problem of querying data sources that have limited capabilities and can thus only be accessed by complying with certain binding patterns for their attributes. This ...
Andrea Calì, Diego Calvanese, Davide Martin...
EDBT
2008
ACM
131views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 4 months ago
A Bayesian approach for on-line max and min auditing
In this paper we consider the on-line max and min query auditing problem: given a private association between fields in a data set, a sequence of max and min queries that have alr...
Gerardo Canfora, Bice Cavallo