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The Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem is the problem of finding a truth assignment that maximizes the number of satisfied clauses of a given Boolean formula in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF). Many exact solvers for MaxSAT have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Mohamed El Halaby

This paper concerns an expansion of first-order Belnap-Dunn logic, named $\mathrm{BD}^{\supset,\mathsf{F}}$, and an application of this logic in the area of relational database theory. The notion of a relational database, the notion of a…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-15 C. A. Middelburg

This paper describes diff-SAT, an Answer Set and SAT solver which combines regular solving with the capability to use probabilistic clauses, facts and rules, and to sample an optimal world-view (multiset of satisfying Boolean variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Matthias Nickles

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

In this work we establish and investigate the connections between causality for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new problems in databases,…

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

In this paper, building on work done on measuring inconsistency in knowledge bases, we introduce inconsistency measures for databases. In particular, focusing on databases with denial constraints, we first consider the natural approach of…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Francesco Parisi , John Grant

Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is one of the core problems in computer science. As one of the fundamental NP-complete problems, it can be used - by known reductions - to represent instances of variety of hard decision problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Michał Karpiński

Certain answers are a principled method for coping with uncertainty that arises in many practical data management tasks. Unfortunately, this method is expensive and may exclude useful (if uncertain) answers. Thus, users frequently resort to…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Su Feng , Aaron Huber , Boris Glavic , Oliver Kennedy

We present an approach to computing consistent answers to queries possibly involving an aggregation operator in databases operating under a star schema and possibly containing missing values and inconsistent data. Our approach is based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Dominique Laurent , Nicolas Spyratos

In this paper, we propose a constraint-based modeling approach for the problem of discovering frequent gradual patterns in a numerical dataset. This SAT-based declarative approach offers an additional possibility to benefit from the recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Jerry Lonlac , Saïdd Jabbour , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo , Lakhdar Saïs , Badran Raddaoui

In this work we establish and investigate connections between causality for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new problems in databases, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Babak Salimi , Leopoldo Bertossi

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

In answer set programming, inconsistencies arise when the constraints placed on a program become unsatisfiable. In this paper, we introduce a technique for dynamic consistency checking for our goal-directed method for computing answer sets,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kyle Marple , Gopal Gupta

In this work we establish and investigate connections between causes for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new research areas in databases,…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Leopoldo Bertossi , Babak Salimi

The Boolean SATisfiability problem (SAT) is of central importance in computer science. Although SAT is known to be NP-complete, progress on the engineering side, especially that of Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) and Local Search SAT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Anshumali Shrivastava , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) is fundamental to many applications. Existing works have used graph neural networks (GNNs) for (approximate) SAT solving. Typical GNN-based end-to-end SAT solvers predict SAT solutions concurrently. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Zhiyuan Yan , Min Li , Zhengyuan Shi , Wenjie Zhang , Yingcong Chen , Hongce Zhang

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 consider the dichotomy conjecture for consistent query answering under primary key constraints. It states that, for every fixed Boolean conjunctive query q, testing whether q is certain (i.e. whether it evaluates to true over all repairs…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Diego Figueira , Anantha Padmanabha , Luc Segoufin , Cristina Sirangelo

The CAP Theorem shows that (strong) Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance are impossible to be ensured together. Causal consistency is one of the weak consistency models that can be implemented to ensure availability and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rachid Zennou , Ranadeep Biswas , Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Mohammed Erradi

In this article, we characterize in terms of analytic tableaux the repairs of inconsistent relational databases, that is databases that do not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints. For this purpose we provide closing and opening…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Leopoldo Bertossi , Camilla Schwind