The goal of a data integration system is to provide a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Given a user query formulated in this interface, the system translates it i...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Background: Biological processes are mediated by networks of interacting genes and proteins. Efforts to map and understand these networks are resulting in the proliferation of int...
Svetlana Pacifico, Guozhen Liu, Stephen Guest, Jod...
While specification languages for integrity constraints for XML data have been considered in the literature, actual technologies and methodologies for checking and maintaining in...