A data warehouse DW can be seen as a set of materialized views de ned over remote base relations. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, using the materialized views, wi...
A uniform framework is presented to describe the most typical strategies that are used to compute answers to Deductive Databases. The framework is based on the definition of a ge...
Generating query-answering plans for data integration systems requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a mediated schema, to a query that uses relations that are...
Oliver M. Duschka, Michael R. Genesereth, Alon Y. ...
We introduce an approach which combines ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) and IBM ILOG CP Optimizer for solving COPs (Combinatorial Optimization Problems). The problem is modeled using...
This paper extends the set of problems for which a global solution can be found using modern optimization methods. In particular, the method is applied to estimation of the essent...