Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-g78kv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-26T04:02:23.826Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A logic-based approach to data integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2002

JOHN GRANT
Affiliation:
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, and Department of Mathematics, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA (e-mail: jgrant@towson.edu)
JACK MINKER
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD, USA (e-mail: minker@cs.umd.edu)

Abstract

An important aspect of data integration involves answering queries using various resources rather than by accessing database relations. The process of transforming a query from the database relations to the resources is often referred to as query folding or answering queries using views, where the views are the resources. We present a uniform approach that includes as special cases much of the previous work on this subject. Our approach is logic-based using resolution. We deal with integrity constraints, negation, and recursion also within this framework.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)