Containment of conjunctive queries with arithmetic expressions

  • Authors:
  • Ali Kiani;Nematollaah Shiri

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We study the problem of query containment for conjunctive queries with arithmetic constraints (QWAE). Such queries arise naturally in conventional database applications, information integration, and cooperative information systems. Given two such queries Q1 and Q2, we propose an algorithm that decides the containment $Q_2\sqsubseteq Q_1$. The proposed algorithm returns a QWAE Q2′ obtained by rewriting Q2′ such that $Q_2'\sqsubseteq Q_2$. This provides partial answers to the QWAE Q1, which would otherwise be discarded by existing standard or extended techniques for query containment.