A broad class of first-order rewritable tuple-generating dependencies

  • Authors:
  • Cristina Civili;Riccardo Rosati

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Datalog 2.0'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Datalog in Academia and Industry
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We study reasoning, and in particular query answering, over databases with tuple-generating dependencies (TGDs). Our focus is on classes of TGDs for which conjunctive query answering is first-order rewritable, i.e., can be reduced to the standard evaluation of a first-order query over the database. In this paper, we define the class of weakly recursive TGDs, and prove that this class comprises and generalizes every previously known FOL-rewritable class of TGDs, under fairly general assumptions on the form of the TGDs.