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VLDB
2011
ACM
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13 years 1 months ago
Normalization and optimization of schema mappings
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Vadim Savenkov
ER
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Querying Databases with Taxonomies
Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is shifting towards a Web scenario in which exposed schemas ar...
Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone
DLOG
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Tractable Query Answering over Ontologies with Datalog+/-
Abstract. We present a family of expressive extensions of Datalog, called Datalog
Andrea Calì, Georg Gottlob, Thomas Lukasiew...
KRDB
2003
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Optimizing Query Answering in Description Logics using Disjunctive Deductive Databases
Motivated by the possibilities of applying deductive database technology for efficient query answering in description logics, we present a translation operator µ that transforms...
Boris Motik, Raphael Volz
IJCAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Practical Partition-Based Theorem Proving for Large Knowledge Bases
Query answering over commonsense knowledge bases typically employs a first-order logic theorem prover. While first-order inference is intractable in general, provers can often b...
Bill MacCartney, Sheila A. McIlraith, Eyal Amir, T...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Query rewriting and answering under constraints in data integration systems
In this paper we address the problem of query answering and rewriting in global-as-view data integration systems, when key and inclusion dependencies are expressed on the global i...
Andrea Calì, Domenico Lembo, Riccardo Rosat...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Conjunctive Query Answering for the Description Logic SHIQ
Conjunctive queries play an important role as an expressive query language for Description Logics (DLs). Although modern DLs usually provide for transitive roles, conjunctive quer...
Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Carsten Lutz, Ulrike Sa...
AAAI
2010
13 years 7 months ago
How Incomplete Is Your Semantic Web Reasoner?
Conjunctive query answering is a key reasoning service for many ontology-based applications. In order to improve scalability, many Semantic Web query answering systems give up com...
Giorgos Stoilos, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrock...
AIMSA
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Expressive Approximations in DL-Lite Ontologies
Abstract. Ontology based data access (OBDA) is concerned with providing access to typically very large data sources through a mediating conceptual layer that allows one to improve ...
Elena Botoeva, Diego Calvanese, Mariano Rodriguez-...
DLOG
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Taming the Infinite Chase: Query Answering under Expressive Relational Constraints
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...
Andrea Calì, Georg Gottlob, Michael Kifer