Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
This work is at the intersection of two lines of research. One line, initiated by Dinur and Nissim, investigates the price, in accuracy, of protecting privacy in a statistical dat...
In data integration systems, queries posed to a mediator need to be translated into a sequence of queries to the underlying data sources. In a heterogeneous environment, with sour...
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector...
Repairing a database means making the database consistent by applying changes that are as small as possible. Nearly all approaches to repairing have assumed deletions and insertion...
Abstract. Checking the consistency of query conditions is an old problem, and there are already many proposed solutions. Since the problem is in general undecidable, there is not a...