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In this paper, we explore the issue of inconsistency handling over prioritized knowledge bases (KBs), which consist of an ontology, a set of facts, and a priority relation between conflicting facts. In the database setting, a closely…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux

Complex query answering (CQA) on knowledge graphs (KGs) is gaining momentum as a challenging reasoning task. In this paper, we show that the current benchmarks for CQA might not be as complex as we think, as the way they are built distorts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Cosimo Gregucci , Bo Xiong , Daniel Hernandez , Lorenzo Loconte , Pasquale Minervini , Steffen Staab , Antonio Vergari

In this paper we consider two points of views to the problem of coherent integration of distributed data. First we give a pure model-theoretic analysis of the possible ways to `repair' a database. We do so by characterizing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ofer Arieli , Marc Denecker , Bert Van Nuffelen , Maurice Bruynooghe

A correspondence between database tuples as causes for query answers in databases and tuple-based repairs of inconsistent databases with respect to denial constraints has already been established. In this work, answer-set programs that…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Leopoldo Bertossi

Causality has been recently introduced in databases, to model, characterize and possibly compute causes for query results (answers). Connections between query causality and consistency-based diagnosis and database repairs (wrt. integrity…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Babak Salimi , Leopoldo Bertossi

The Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) was standardized by the World Wide Web as a constraint language to describe and validate RDF data graphs. SHACL uses the notion of shapes graph to describe a set of shape constraints paired with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shqiponja Ahmetaj , Timo Camillo Merkl , Reinhard Pichler

In this work we establish and point out connections between the notion of query-answer causality in databases and database repairs, model-based diagnosis in its consistency-based and abductive versions, and database updates through views.…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Leopoldo Bertossi , Babak Salimi

We formalize and study the problem of repairing database queries based on user feedback in the form of a collection of labeled examples. We propose a framework based on the notion of a proximity pre-order, and we investigate and compare…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Balder ten Cate , Phokion Kolaitis , Carsten Lutz

We study the problem of consistent query answering under primary key violations. In this setting, the relations in a database violate the key constraints and we are interested in maximal subsets of the database that satisfy the constraints,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

For a relation that violates a set of functional dependencies, we consider the task of finding a maximum number of pairwise-consistent tuples, or what is known as a "cardinality repair." We present a polynomial-time algorithm that, for…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Ester Livshits , Benny Kimelfeld

Classical algorithms for query optimization presuppose the absence of inconsistencies or uncertainties in the database and exploit only valid semantic knowledge provided, e.g., by integrity constraints. Data inconsistency or uncertainty,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Federica Panella

Traditional inconsistency-tolerent query answering in ontology-based data access relies on selecting maximal components of an ABox/database which are consistent with the ontology. However, some rules in ontologies might be unreliable if…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Hai Wan , Heng Zhang , Peng Xiao , Haoran Huang , Yan Zhang

Data inconsistency evaluating and repairing are major concerns in data quality management. As the basic computing task, optimal subset repair is not only applied for cost estimation during the progress of database repairing, but also…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Dongjing Miao , Zhipeng Cai , Jianzhong Li , Xiangyu Gao , Xianmin Liu

Efficient consistency maintenance of incomplete and dynamic real-life databases is a quality label for further data analysis. In prior work, we tackled the generic problem of database updating in the presence of tuple generating constraints…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jacques Chabin , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari , Nicolas Hiot , Dominique Laurent

We investigate the problem of identifying database repairs for missing tuples in query answers. We show that when the query is part of the input - the combined complexity setting - determining whether or not a repair exists is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jesse Comer , Val Tannen

In its traditional definition, a repair of an inconsistent database is a consistent database that differs from the inconsistent one in a "minimal way". Often, repairs are not equally legitimate, as it is desired to prefer one over another;…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Benny Kimelfeld , Ester Livshits , Liat Peterfreund

Knowledge graphs contain informative factual knowledge but are considered incomplete. To answer complex queries under incomplete knowledge, learning-based Complex Query Answering (CQA) models are proposed to directly learn from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Hang Yin , Zihao Wang , Yangqiu Song

We address the issue of incorporating a particular yet expressive form of integrity constraints (namely, denial constraints) into probabilistic databases. To this aim, we move away from the common way of giving semantics to probabilistic…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-14 Sergio Flesca , Filippo Furfaro , Francesco Parisi

We consider the problem of answering conjunctive queries with aggregation on database instances that may violate primary key constraints. In SQL, these queries follow the SELECT-FROM-WHERE-GROUP BY format, where the WHERE-clause involves a…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aziz Amezian El Khalfioui , Jef Wijsen

We address the problem of minimal-change integrity maintenance in the context of integrity constraints in relational databases. We assume that integrity-restoration actions are limited to tuple deletions. We identify two basic computational…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Chomicki , Jerzy Marcinkowski