35 Search Results for "Wijsen, Jef"


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LIPIcs, Volume 90

24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)

TIME 2017, October 16-18, 2017, Mons, Belgium

Editors: Sven Schewe, Thomas Schneider, and Jef Wijsen

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Computing Consistent Least Upper Bounds in Aggregate Logic

Authors: Aziz Amezian El Khalfioui and Jef Wijsen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 365, 29th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2026)


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We consider the problem of answering conjunctive queries with aggregation on database instances that may violate primary key constraints. In SQL, these queries follow the SELECT-FROM-WHERE-GROUP BY format, where the WHERE clause involves a conjunction of equalities, and the SELECT clause can incorporate aggregate operators like MAX, MIN, SUM, AVG, or COUNT. Repairs of a database instance are defined as inclusion-maximal subsets that satisfy all primary keys. The range-consistent answer to a numerical query over an inconsistent database is a pair [glb, lub], where glb and lub are, respectively, the smallest and the greatest results returned by the query over all possible repairs. While previous work has focused on the computation of the glb, the current paper studies the computation of the lub for a numerical domain of non-negative rational numbers. We introduce the notion of κ-acyclicity for self-join-free conjunctive queries. We show that if the body of a SUM-query is κ-acyclic, then the lub can be computed through a rewriting in first-order aggregate logic. Moreover, we show that this result extends to all aggregate operators that are monotone and associative. Importantly, we also prove the inverse: if the body of a SUM-query is not κ-acyclic, then the lub cannot be computed in first-order aggregate logic.

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Aziz Amezian El Khalfioui and Jef Wijsen. Computing Consistent Least Upper Bounds in Aggregate Logic. In 29th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 365, pp. 4:1-4:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{amezianelkhalfioui_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2026.4,
  author =	{Amezian El Khalfioui, Aziz and Wijsen, Jef},
  title =	{{Computing Consistent Least Upper Bounds in Aggregate Logic}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2026)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-413-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{365},
  editor =	{ten Cate, Balder and Funk, Maurice},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2026.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-256180},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2026.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Consistent query answering, primary key, conjunctive query, aggregate logic}
}
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Invited Paper
Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on (Preferred) Repairs (Invited Paper)

Authors: Camille Bourgaux

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 138, Joint Proceedings of the 20th and 21st Reasoning Web Summer Schools (RW 2024 & RW 2025)


Abstract
Real-world datasets are plagued by data quality issues which may render the data inconsistent w.r.t. a set of constraints, be they given by database integrity constraints or ontologies. A prominent way to handle such inconsistent data is to use inconsistency-tolerant semantics to obtain meaningful answers to queries. Most of these semantics are based on some notion of repairs, which represent ways of restoring the data consistency. The most basic kind of repairs is that of subset repairs, which are maximal consistent subsets of the dataset. However, in many scenarios, one can define preferred repairs based on some preference information. These lecture notes present inconsistency-tolerant semantics, focusing on the repair-based ones, then review different kinds of preferred repairs that have been considered in the literature. We present in particular the relationships between different kinds of preferred repairs and other notions related to inconsistency handling, the computational complexity of reasoning with (preferred) repairs, and some implementations.

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Camille Bourgaux. Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on (Preferred) Repairs (Invited Paper). In Joint Proceedings of the 20th and 21st Reasoning Web Summer Schools (RW 2024 & RW 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 138, pp. 5:1-5:67, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bourgaux:OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.5,
  author =	{Bourgaux, Camille},
  title =	{{Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on (Preferred) Repairs}},
  booktitle =	{Joint Proceedings of the 20th and 21st Reasoning Web Summer Schools (RW 2024 \& RW 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:67},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-405-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Artale, Alessandro and Bienvenu, Meghyn and Garc{\'\i}a, Yazm{\'\i}n Ib\'{a}\~{n}ez and Murlak, Filip},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250504},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Knowledge bases, databases, inconsistency handling, repairs, preferences}
}
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Enumeration of Minimal Hitting Sets Parameterized by Treewidth

Authors: Batya Kenig and Dan Shlomo Mizrahi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
Enumerating the minimal hitting sets of a hypergraph is a problem which arises in many data management applications that include constraint mining, discovering unique column combinations, and enumerating database repairs. Previously, Eiter et al. [Thomas Eiter et al., 2003] showed that the minimal hitting sets of an n-vertex hypergraph, with treewidth w, can be enumerated with delay O^*(n^w) (ignoring polynomial factors), with space requirements that scale with the output size. We improve this to fixed-parameter-linear delay, following an FPT preprocessing phase. The memory consumption of our algorithm is exponential with respect to the treewidth of the hypergraph.

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Batya Kenig and Dan Shlomo Mizrahi. Enumeration of Minimal Hitting Sets Parameterized by Treewidth. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 8:1-8:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kenig_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.8,
  author =	{Kenig, Batya and Mizrahi, Dan Shlomo},
  title =	{{Enumeration of Minimal Hitting Sets Parameterized by Treewidth}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229498},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Enumeration, Hitting sets}
}
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Repairing Databases over Metric Spaces with Coincidence Constraints

Authors: Youri Kaminsky, Benny Kimelfeld, Ester Livshits, Felix Naumann, and David Wajc

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
Datasets often contain values that naturally reside in a metric space: numbers, strings, geographical locations, machine-learned embeddings in a vector space, and so on. We study the computational complexity of repairing inconsistent databases that violate integrity constraints, where the database values belong to an underlying metric space. The goal is to update the database values to retain consistency while minimizing the total distance between the original values and the repaired ones. We consider what we refer to as coincidence constraints, which include unary key constraints, inclusion constraints, foreign keys, and generally any restriction on the relationship between the numbers of cells of different labels (attributes) coinciding in a single value, for a fixed attribute set. We begin by showing that the problem is APX-hard for general metric spaces. We then present an algorithm solving the problem optimally for tree metrics, which generalize both the line metric (i.e., where repaired values are numbers) and the discrete metric (i.e., where we simply count the number of changed values). Combining our algorithm for tree metrics and a classic result on probabilistic tree embeddings, we design a (high probability) logarithmic-ratio approximation for general metrics. We also study the variant of the problem where we limit the allowed change of each individual value. In this variant, it is already NP-complete to decide the existence of any legal repair for a general metric, and we present a polynomial-time repairing algorithm for the case of a line metric.

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Youri Kaminsky, Benny Kimelfeld, Ester Livshits, Felix Naumann, and David Wajc. Repairing Databases over Metric Spaces with Coincidence Constraints. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 14:1-14:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kaminsky_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.14,
  author =	{Kaminsky, Youri and Kimelfeld, Benny and Livshits, Ester and Naumann, Felix and Wajc, David},
  title =	{{Repairing Databases over Metric Spaces with Coincidence Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229554},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Database repairs, metric spaces, coincidence constraints, inclusion constraints, foreign-key constraints}
}
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Database Theory in Action
Database Theory in Action: Making Provenance and Probabilistic Database Theory Work in Practice (Invited Talk)

Authors: Silviu Maniu and Pierre Senellart

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
There has been a rich literature in database theory on how to model and manage the provenance of data (for instance using the semiring framework) and its uncertainty (in particular via probabilistic databases). In this article, we explain how these results have been used as the basis for practical implementations, notably in the ProvSQL system, and how these implementations need to be adapted for the efficient management of provenance and probability for real-world data.

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Silviu Maniu and Pierre Senellart. Database Theory in Action: Making Provenance and Probabilistic Database Theory Work in Practice (Invited Talk). In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 33:1-33:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{maniu_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.33,
  author =	{Maniu, Silviu and Senellart, Pierre},
  title =	{{Database Theory in Action: Making Provenance and Probabilistic Database Theory Work in Practice (Invited Talk)}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229746},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: provenance, probabilistic data, ProvSQL}
}
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On the Impact of Provenance Semiring Theory on the Design of a Provenance-Aware Database System

Authors: Pierre Senellart

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 119, The Provenance of Elegance in Computation - Essays Dedicated to Val Tannen (2024)


Abstract
We report on the impact that the theory of provenance semirings, developed by Val Tannen and his collaborators, has had on the design on a practical system for maintaining the provenance of query results over a relational database, namely ProvSQL.

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Pierre Senellart. On the Impact of Provenance Semiring Theory on the Design of a Provenance-Aware Database System. In The Provenance of Elegance in Computation - Essays Dedicated to Val Tannen. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 119, pp. 9:1-9:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{senellart:OASIcs.Tannen.9,
  author =	{Senellart, Pierre},
  title =	{{On the Impact of Provenance Semiring Theory on the Design of a Provenance-Aware Database System}},
  booktitle =	{The Provenance of Elegance in Computation - Essays Dedicated to Val Tannen},
  pages =	{9:1--9:10},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-320-1},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{119},
  editor =	{Amarilli, Antoine and Deutsch, Alin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Tannen.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201050},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.Tannen.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: provenance, provenance semiring, ProvSQL}
}
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Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Conjunctive Queries with Counting

Authors: Aziz Amezian El Khalfioui and Jef Wijsen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 255, 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)


Abstract
The problem of consistent query answering for primary keys and self-join-free conjunctive queries has been intensively studied in recent years and is by now well understood. In this paper, we study an extension of this problem with counting. The queries we consider count how many times each value occurs in a designated (possibly composite) column of an answer to a full conjunctive query. In a setting of database repairs, we adopt the semantics of [Arenas et al., ICDT 2001] which computes tight lower and upper bounds on these counts, where the bounds are taken over all repairs. Ariel Fuxman defined in his PhD thesis a syntactic class of queries, called Cforest, for which this computation can be done by executing two first-order queries (one for lower bounds, and one for upper bounds) followed by simple counting steps. We use the term "parsimonious counting" for this computation. A natural question is whether Cforest contains all self-join-free conjunctive queries that admit parsimonious counting. We answer this question negatively. We define a new syntactic class of queries, called Cparsimony, and prove that it contains all (and only) self-join-free conjunctive queries that admit parsimonious counting.

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Aziz Amezian El Khalfioui and Jef Wijsen. Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Conjunctive Queries with Counting. In 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 255, pp. 23:1-23:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{amezianelkhalfioui_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.23,
  author =	{Amezian El Khalfioui, Aziz and Wijsen, Jef},
  title =	{{Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Conjunctive Queries with Counting}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-270-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{255},
  editor =	{Geerts, Floris and Vandevoort, Brecht},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-177659},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Consistent query answering, primary key, conjunctive query, aggregation, counting}
}
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Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys in Logspace

Authors: Paraschos Koutris and Jef Wijsen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 127, 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019)


Abstract
We study the complexity of consistent query answering on databases that may violate primary key constraints. A repair of such a database is any consistent database that can be obtained by deleting a minimal set of tuples. For every Boolean query q, CERTAINTY(q) is the problem that takes a database as input and asks whether q evaluates to true on every repair. In [Koutris and Wijsen, ACM TODS, 2017], the authors show that for every self-join-free Boolean conjunctive query q, the problem CERTAINTY(q) is either in P or coNP-complete, and it is decidable which of the two cases applies. In this paper, we sharpen this result by showing that for every self-join-free Boolean conjunctive query q, the problem CERTAINTY(q) is either expressible in symmetric stratified Datalog (with some aggregation operator) or coNP-complete. Since symmetric stratified Datalog is in L, we thus obtain a complexity-theoretic dichotomy between L and coNP-complete. Another new finding of practical importance is that CERTAINTY(q) is on the logspace side of the dichotomy for queries q where all join conditions express foreign-to-primary key matches, which is undoubtedly the most common type of join condition.

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Paraschos Koutris and Jef Wijsen. Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys in Logspace. In 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 127, pp. 23:1-23:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{koutris_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.23,
  author =	{Koutris, Paraschos and Wijsen, Jef},
  title =	{{Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys in Logspace}},
  booktitle =	{22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-101-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{127},
  editor =	{Barcelo, Pablo and Calautti, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-103252},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: conjunctive queries, consistent query answering, Datalog, primary keys}
}
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Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 90, TIME'17, Complete Volume

Authors: Sven Schewe, Thomas Schneider, and Jef Wijsen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 90, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)


Abstract
LIPIcs, Volume 90, TIME'17, Complete Volume

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24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@Proceedings{schewe_et_al:LIPIcs.TIME.2017,
  title =	{{LIPIcs, Volume 90, TIME'17, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-052-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{90},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-80233},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed Systems, Design Tools and Techniques, Software/Program Verification, Security and Protection, Models of Computation, Specifying and Verifying and Reasoning about Programs, Mathematical Logic, \lbrackNumerical Linear Algebra\rbrack Linear Systems, Graph Theory}
}
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Front Matter
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization, List of Authors

Authors: Sven Schewe, Thomas Schneider, and Jef Wijsen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 90, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)


Abstract
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization, List of Authors

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24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, pp. 0:i-0:xiv, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{schewe_et_al:LIPIcs.TIME.2017.0,
  author =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization, List of Authors}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)},
  pages =	{0:i--0:xiv},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-052-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{90},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79117},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization, List of Authors}
}
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Invited Talk
Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Temporal Data: A Survey (Invited Talk)

Authors: Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Alisa Kovtunova, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Frank Wolter, and Michael Zakharyaschev

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 90, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)


Abstract
We discuss the use of various temporal knowledge representation formalisms for ontology-mediated query answering over temporal data. In particular, we analyse ontology and query languages based on the linear temporal logic LTL, the multi-dimensional Halpern-Shoham interval temporal logic HS_n, as well as the metric temporal logic MTL. Our main focus is on the data complexity of answering temporal ontology-mediated queries and their rewritability into standard first-order and datalog queries.

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Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Alisa Kovtunova, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Frank Wolter, and Michael Zakharyaschev. Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Temporal Data: A Survey (Invited Talk). In 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, pp. 1:1-1:37, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{artale_et_al:LIPIcs.TIME.2017.1,
  author =	{Artale, Alessandro and Kontchakov, Roman and Kovtunova, Alisa and Ryzhikov, Vladislav and Wolter, Frank and Zakharyaschev, Michael},
  title =	{{Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Temporal Data: A Survey}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:37},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-052-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{90},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79338},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Description Logic, Temporal Logic, Ontology Mediated Query Answering, Data Complexity}
}
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Invited Talk
Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Free-Choice Workflow Petri Nets (Invited Talk)

Authors: Javier Esparza

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 90, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)


Abstract
We survey recent results on the development of efficient algorithms for the quantitative analysis of business processes modeled as workflow Petri nets. The algorithms can be applied to any workflow net, but have polynomial runtime in the free-choice case.

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Javier Esparza. Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Free-Choice Workflow Petri Nets (Invited Talk). In 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, pp. 2:1-2:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{esparza:LIPIcs.TIME.2017.2,
  author =	{Esparza, Javier},
  title =	{{Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Free-Choice Workflow Petri Nets}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-052-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{90},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79266},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Free-choice Petri Nets, concurrency theory, quantitative verification}
}
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Plan and Program Synthesis: A New Look at Some Old Problems (Invited Talk)

Authors: Sheila A. McIlraith

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 90, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)


Abstract
The proliferation of programmable devices, personal assistants, and autonomous systems presents fundamental challenges to the deployment of safe, predictable systems that can work together, interact seamlessly with humans, and that are taskable and instructable by people who may not know how to program. In this talk, we will revisit the classical problem of program synthesis through the lens of AI automated planning. We will present recent advances in AI automated planning principles and computational methods that support the synthesis of plans with goals and preferences specified in Linear Temporal Logic and Regular Expressions. Moving from automated planning in deterministic domains to planning in nondeterministic domains, we will explore the pathway to synthesizing programs that are taskable and instructable by exploiting state-of-the-art AI planning technology.

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Sheila A. McIlraith. Plan and Program Synthesis: A New Look at Some Old Problems (Invited Talk). In 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, p. 3:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{mcilraith:LIPIcs.TIME.2017.3,
  author =	{McIlraith, Sheila A.},
  title =	{{Plan and Program Synthesis: A New Look at Some Old Problems}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-052-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{90},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79343},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: planning, program synthesis, linear temporal logic, regular expressions}
}
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Possible and Certain Answers for Queries over Order-Incomplete Data

Authors: Antoine Amarilli, Mouhamadou Lamine Ba, Daniel Deutch, and Pierre Senellart

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 90, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)


Abstract
To combine and query ordered data from multiple sources, one needs to handle uncertainty about the possible orderings. Examples of such "order-incomplete" data include integrated event sequences such as log entries; lists of properties (e.g., hotels and restaurants) ranked by an unknown function reflecting relevance or customer ratings; and documents edited concurrently with an uncertain order on edits. This paper introduces a query language for order-incomplete data, based on the positive relational algebra with order-aware accumulation. We use partial orders to represent order-incomplete data, and study possible and certain answers for queries in this context. We show that these problems are respectively NP-complete and coNP-complete, but identify many tractable cases depending on the query operators or input partial orders.

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Antoine Amarilli, Mouhamadou Lamine Ba, Daniel Deutch, and Pierre Senellart. Possible and Certain Answers for Queries over Order-Incomplete Data. In 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, pp. 4:1-4:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{amarilli_et_al:LIPIcs.TIME.2017.4,
  author =	{Amarilli, Antoine and Ba, Mouhamadou Lamine and Deutch, Daniel and Senellart, Pierre},
  title =	{{Possible and Certain Answers for Queries over Order-Incomplete Data}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-052-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{90},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Schneider, Thomas and Wijsen, Jef},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79311},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: certain answer, possible answer, partial order, uncertain data}
}
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