Abstract. Repairing a database means bringing the database in accordance with a given set of integrity constraints by applying modifications that are as small as possible. In the ...
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
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...
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...
Abstract. We study privacy guarantees for the owner of an information system who wants to share some of the information in the system with clients while keeping some other informat...