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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.4

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)

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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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