AAAI Workshop · 1998

Query Planning with Disjunctive Sources

Datalog is not expressive enough for sources holding disjunctive information. Disjunctive datalog with inequality is — and yields plans that extract everything available.

Abstract

We examine the query planning problem in information integration systems in the presence of sources that contain disjunctive information. We show that datalog, the language of choice for representing query plans in information integration systems, is not sufficiently expressive in this case. We prove that disjunctive datalog with inequality is sufficiently expressive, and present a construction of query plans that are guaranteed to extract all available information from disjunctive sources.

Publication details

Venue
AAAI Workshop on AI and Information Integration
Year
1998
Authors
Oliver M. Duschka, Michael R. Genesereth
Citations
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@inproceedings{duschka1998disjunctive,
  author    = {Oliver M. Duschka and Michael R. Genesereth},
  title     = {Query Planning with Disjunctive Sources},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on AI and Information Integration},
  year      = {1998}
}

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