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A database D may be inconsistent wrt a given set IC of integrity constraints. Consistent Query Answering (CQA) is the problem of computing from D the answers to a query that are consistent wrt IC . Consistent answers are invariant under all…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Andrei Lopatenko , Leopoldo Bertossi

Consistent query answering over a database that violates primary key constraints is a classical hard problem in database research that has been traditionally dealt with logic programming. However, the applicability of existing logic-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Marco Manna , Francesco Ricca , Giorgio Terracina

Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Marco Calautti , Ester Livshits , Andreas Pieris , Markus Schneider

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

The problem of extracting consistent information from relational databases violating integrity constraints on numerical data is addressed. In particular, aggregate constraints defined as linear inequalities on aggregate-sum queries on input…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sergio Flesca , Filippo Furfaro , Francesco Parisi

The problem of consistent query answering for primary keys and self-join-free conjunctive queries has been intensively studied in recent years and is by now well understood. In this paper, we study an extension of this problem with…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Aziz Amezian El Khalfioui , Jef Wijsen

We consider the task of enumerating and counting answers to $k$-ary conjunctive queries against relational databases that may be updated by inserting or deleting tuples. We exhibit a new notion of q-hierarchical conjunctive queries and show…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Christoph Berkholz , Jens Keppeler , Nicole Schweikardt

We investigate the query evaluation problem for fixed queries over fully dynamic databases where tuples can be inserted or deleted. The task is to design a dynamic data structure that can immediately report the new result of a fixed query…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Christoph Berkholz , Jens Keppeler , Nicole Schweikardt

We consider the following fundamental problem: given a database D, Boolean conjunctive query (CQ) q, and fact f in D, decide whether f is relevant to q wrt. D, i.e., does f belong to a minimal subset S of D such that S |= q. Despite being…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Meghyn Bienvenu , Diego Figueira , Pierre Lafourcade

A key task in the context of consistent query answering is to count the number of repairs that entail the query, with the ultimate goal being a precise data complexity classification. This has been achieved in the case of primary keys and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Marco Calautti , Ester Livshits , Andreas Pieris , Markus Schneider

Conjunctive query (CQ) evaluation is NP-complete, but becomes tractable for fragments of bounded hypertreewidth. Approximating a hard CQ by a query from such a fragment can thus allow for an efficient approximate evaluation. While…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pablo Barceló , Miguel Romero , Thomas Zeume

The resilience of a Boolean query is the minimum number of tuples that need to be deleted from the input tables in order to make the query false. A solution to this problem immediately translates into a solution for the more widely known…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Cibele Freire , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Neil Immerman , Alexandra Meliou

A relational database is inconsistent if it does not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints. Nevertheless, it is likely that most of the data in it is consistent with the constraints. In this paper we apply logic programming based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marcelo Arenas , Leopoldo Bertossi , Jan Chomicki

Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Marco Calautti , Ester Livshits , Andreas Pieris , Markus Schneider

Consistent answers to a query from a possibly inconsistent database are answers that are simultaneously retrieved from every possible repair of the database. Repairs are consistent instances that minimally differ from the original…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Leopoldo Bertossi

We study consistent query answering in relational databases. We consider an expressive class of schema constraints that generalizes both tuple-generating dependencies and equality-generating dependencies. We establish the complexity of…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Lorenzo Marconi , Riccardo Rosati

We study the model checking problem, for fixed structures A, over positive equality-free first-order logic -- a natural generalisation of the non-uniform quantified constraint satisfaction problem QCSP(A). We prove a complete complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-08-06 Barnaby Martin

We investigate determining the exact bounds of the frequencies of conjunctions based on frequent sets. Our scenario is an important special case of some general probabilistic logic problems that are known to be intractable. We show that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Nikolaj Tatti

We study the $generalized~model~counting~problem$, defined as follows: given a database, and a set of deterministic tuples, count the number of subsets of the database that include all deterministic tuples and satisfy the query. This…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Batya Kenig , Dan Suciu

We show that for every conjunctive query, the complexity of evaluating it on a probabilistic database is either \PTIME or #\P-complete, and we give an algorithm for deciding whether a given conjunctive query is \PTIME or #\P-complete. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nilesh Dalvi , Dan Suciu