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VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
VLDB
2001
ACM
104views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
Global transaction support for workflow management systems: from formal specification to practical implementation
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
VLDB
2004
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
16 years 7 months ago
Preserving mapping consistency under schema changes
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
Yannis Velegrakis, Renée J. Miller, Lucian Popa
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
176views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
URank: formulation and efficient evaluation of top-k queries in uncertain databases
Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between query scores and data uncertainty ma...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chua...
PADL
2010
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
Implementing Query Answering for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
Ana Sofia Gomes, José Júlio Alferes,...