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In this paper, we propose the use of epistemic dependencies to express data protection policies in Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE), which is a form of confidentiality-preserving query answering over ontologies and databases. The resulting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Gianluca Cima , Domenico Lembo , Lorenzo Marconi , Riccardo Rosati , Domenico Fabio Savo

Query Containment Problem (QCP) is one of the most fundamental decision problems in database query processing and optimization. Complexity of QCP for conjunctive queries (QCP-CQ) has been fully understood since 1970s. But, as Chaudhuri and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jerzy Marcinkowski , Mateusz Orda

Matching Dependencies (MDs) are a relatively recent proposal for declarative entity resolution. They are rules that specify, on the basis of similarities satisfied by values in a database, what values should be considered duplicates, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Leopoldo Bertossi , Jaffer Gardezi

Ontological query answering is the problem of answering queries in the presence of schema constraints representing the domain of interest. Datalog+/- is a common family of languages for schema constraints, including tuple-generating…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Luigi Bellomarini , Emanuel Sallinger

Data exchange, the problem of transferring data from a source schema to a target schema, has been studied for several years. The semantics of answering positive queries over the target schema has been defined in early work, but little…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Marco Calautti , Sergio Greco , Cristian Molinaro , Irina Trubitsyna

We study the problem of counting answers to unions of conjunctive queries (UCQs) under structural restrictions on the input query. Concretely, given a class C of UCQs, the problem #UCQ(C) provides as input a UCQ Q in C and a database D and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jacob Focke , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Marc Roth , Stanislav Živný

We study the complexity of answer counting for ontology-mediated queries and for querying under constraints, considering conjunctive queries and unions thereof (UCQs) as the query language and guarded TGDs as the ontology and constraint…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Cristina Feier , Carsten Lutz , Marcin Przybyłko

GQL has recently emerged as the standard query language over graph databases (particularly, the property graph model). Indeed, this is analogous to the role of SQL for relational databases. Unlike SQL, however, fundamental problems…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Diego Figueira , Anthony W. Lin , Liat Peterfreund

A common question when studying a class of context-free grammars is whether equivalence is decidable within this class. We answer this question positively for the class of Clark-congruential grammars, which are of interest to grammatical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Makoto Kanazawa , Tobias Kappé

Bilingual machine-readable dictionaries are knowledge resources useful in many automatic tasks. However, compared to monolingual computational lexicons like WordNet, bilingual dictionaries typically provide a lower amount of structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Tiziano Flati , Roberto Navigli

Constraint-based causal discovery is brittle in finite-sample regimes because erroneous conditional-independence (CI) decisions can cascade into substantial structural errors. We propose Quantitative Argumentation for Causal Discovery…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sheng Wei , Yulin Chen , Beishui Liao

We study the complexity and expressive power of conjunctive queries over unranked labeled trees represented using a variety of structure relations such as ``child'', ``descendant'', and ``following'' as well as unary relations for node…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Georg Gottlob , Christoph Koch , Klaus U. Schulz

The proliferation of contextualized knowledge in the Semantic Web (SW) has led to the popularity of knowledge formats such as \emph{quads} in the SW community. A quad is an extension of an RDF triple with contextual information of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Mathew Joseph , Gabriel Kuper , Till Mossakowski , Luciano Serafini

The recent outburst of context-dependent knowledge on the Semantic Web (SW) has led to the realization of the importance of the quads in the SW community. Quads, which extend a standard RDF triple, by adding a new parameter of the `context'…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Mathew Joseph , Gabriel Kuper , Luciano Serafini

We study the complexity of consistent query answering on databases that may violate primary key constraints. A repair of such a database is any consistent database that can be obtained by deleting a minimal set of tuples. For every Boolean…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Paraschos Koutris , Jef Wijsen

Question Under Discussion (QUD) is a discourse framework that uses implicit questions to reveal discourse relationships between sentences. In QUD parsing, each sentence is viewed as an answer to a question triggered by an anchor sentence in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ashima Suvarna , Xiao Liu , Tanmay Parekh , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Answering Conjunctive Queries (CQs) and solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) are arguably among the most fundamental tasks in Computer Science. They are classical NP-complete problems. Consequently, the search for tractable…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler

The problem of checking whether a recursive query can be rewritten as query without recursion is a fundamental reasoning task, known as the boundedness problem. Here we study the boundedness problem for Unions of Conjunctive Regular Path…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Diego Figueira , S. Krishna , Om Swostik Mishra , Anantha Padmanabha

The domain of explainable AI is of interest in all Machine Learning fields, and it is all the more important in clustering, an unsupervised task whose result must be validated by a domain expert. We aim at finding a clustering that has high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mathieu Guilbert , Christel Vrain , Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao

Circumscription is one of the main approaches for defining non-monotonic description logics (DLs). While the decidability and complexity of traditional reasoning tasks such as satisfiability of circumscribed DL knowledge bases (KBs) is well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Carsten Lutz , Quentin Manière , Robin Nolte