Data integration: a challenging ASP application

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Leone;Thomas Eiter;Wolfgang Faber;Michael Fink;Georg Gottlob;Luigi Granata;Gianluigi Greco;Edyta Kałka;Giovambattista Ianni;Domenico Lembo;Maurizio Lenzerini;Vincenzino Lio;Bartosz Nowicki;Riccardo Rosati;Marco Ruzzi;Witold Staniszkis;Giorgio Terracina

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy;Inst. für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria;Inst. für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria;Inst. für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria;Inst. für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy;Rodan Systems S.A., Warsaw, Poland;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy;Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy;Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy;Rodan Systems S.A., Warsaw, Poland;Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy;Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy;Rodan Systems S.A., Warsaw, Poland;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy

  • Venue:
  • LPNMR'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The paper presents INFOMIX a successful application of ASP technology to the domain of Data Integration. INFOMIX is a novel system which supports powerful information integration, utilizing the ASP system DLV. While INFOMIX is based on solid theoretical foundations, it is a user-friendly system, endowed with graphical user interfaces for the average database user and administrator, respectively. The main features of the INFOMIX system are: (i) a comprehensive information model, through which the knowledge about the integration domain can be declaratively specified, (ii) capability of dealing with data that may result incomplete and/or inconsistent with respect to global constraints, (iii) advanced information integration algorithms, which reduce (in a sound and complete way) query answering to cautious reasoning on disjunctive Datalog programs, (iv) sophisticated optimization techniques guaranteeing the effectiveness of query evaluation in INFOMIX, (v) a rich data acquisition and transformation framework for accessing heterogeneous data in many formats including relational, XML, and HTML data.