We present a formal analysis of the following view-selection problem: Given a set of queries and a database, return definitions of views that, when materialized in the database, w...
Jingni Li, Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi, Rada Chirkov...
: The interdisciplinary ViFaChem II project aims at providing a chemical digital library infrastructure for creating personalized information spaces. The value added services and s...
A database D may be inconsistent wrt a given set IC of integrity constraints. Consistent Query Answering is the problem of computing from D the answers to a query that are consist...
An approach to defining actionability as a measure of interestingness of patterns is proposed. This approach is based on the concept of an action hierarchy which is defined as a t...
We consider spatial databases in the plane that can be defined by polynomial constraint formulas. Motivated by applications in geographic information systems, we investigate line...