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ICDT
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Query languages for data exchange: beyond unions of conjunctive queries
The class of unions of conjunctive queries (UCQ) has been shown to be particularly well-behaved for data exchange; its certain answers can be computed in polynomial time (in terms...
Juan Reutter, Marcelo Arenas, Pablo Barceló
LICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Expressiveness and Closure Properties for Quantitative Languages
Weighted automata are nondeterministic automata with numerical weights on transitions. They can define quantitative languages L that assign to each word w a real number L(w). In ...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. He...
ECAI
1994
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Concept Language with Number Restrictions and Fixpoints, and its Relationship with Mu-calculus
Abstract. Many recent works point out that there are several possibilities of assigning a meaning to a concept definition containing some sort of recursion. In this paper, we argue...
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data
We address the problem of query rewriting for TSL, a language for querying semistructured data. We develop and present an algorithm that, given a semistructured query q and a set ...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Vasilis Vassalos
ICDT
1995
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Approximation in Databases
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...
Leonid Libkin