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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Olteanu, Dan Antova, Lyublena Koch, Christoph |
| Abstract | Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete information. Most work has combined the syntax of a traditional query language like relational algebra with a nonstandard semantics such as certain or ranked possible answers. There are now also languages with special features to deal with uncertainty. However, to the standards of the data management community, to date no language proposal has been made that can be considered a natural analog to SQL or relational algebra for the case of incomplete information. In this paper we propose such a language, World-set Algebra, which satisfies the robustness criteria and analogies to relational algebra that we expect. The language supports the contemplation on alternatives and can thus map from a complete database to an incomplete one comprising several possible worlds. We show that World-set Algebra is conservative over relational algebra in the sense that any query that maps from a complete database to a complete database (a complete-to-complete query) is equivalent to a relational algebra query. Moreover, we give an efficient algorithm for effecting this translation. We then study algebraic query optimization of such queries. We argue that query languages with explicit constructs for handling uncertainty allow for the more natural and simple expression of many real-world decision support queries. The results of this paper not only suggest a language for specifying queries in this way, but also allow for their efficient evaluation in any relational database management system. |
| Starting Page | 713 |
| Ending Page | 724 |
| Page Count | 12 |
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| ISBN | 9781595936868 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1247480.1247559 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2007-06-11 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | World-set algebra Query rewriting Use cases Incomplete information Hypothetical queries |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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