Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
We study the problem of answering queries over sources with limited access patterns. Given a first-order query Q, the problem is to decide whether there is an equivalent query whi...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
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...