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描述逻辑约束下的合取查询包含与查询

Conjunctive Query Containment and Answering under Description Logics Constraints

Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini

摘要:

查询包容和查询应答是数据库中两个重要的计算任务。虽然查询应答相当于计算数据库上的查询结果,但查询包含是检查对于每个数据库,一个查询的结果是否是另一个查询的结果的子集的问题。在本文中,我们处理联合查询,我们解决查询包含和查询回答下的描述逻辑约束。每一个这样的约束本质上是概念和关系之间的包含依赖关系,它们的表达能力是由于使用复杂表达式的可能性,例如,关系的交集和差,量化的特殊形式,二元关系上的正则表达式,依赖关系的规范。这些类型的约束捕获了各种各样的数据模型,包括关系模型、实体关系模型和面向对象模型,所有这些都扩展了各种形式的约束,并且还捕获了在语义Web上下文中使用的本体语言的基本特征。我们提出了以下结果的查询包含和查询回答。给出了描述逻辑约束下的查询包容方法,证明了该问题的可判定性,并分析了其计算复杂性。我们证明,查询包含是不可判定的情况下,我们允许在右手边的查询不等式,即使是非常简单的约束和查询。我们表明,查询回答描述逻辑约束下,可以减少到查询遏制,并说明这样的减少提供了上限结果的组合和数据的复杂性。

英文摘要:

Query containment and query answering are two important computational tasks in databases. While query answering amounts to compute the result of a query over a database, query containment is the problem of checking whether for every database, the result of one query is a subset of the result of another query. In this paper, we deal with unions of conjunctive queries, and we address query containment and query answering under Description Logic constraints. Every such constraint is essentially an inclusion dependencies between concepts and relations, and their expressive power is due to the possibility of using complex expressions, e.g., intersection and difference of relations, special forms of quantification, regular expressions over binary relations, in the specification of the dependencies. These types of constraints capture a great variety of data models, including the relational, the entity-relationship, and the object-oriented model, all extended with various forms of constraints, and also the basic features of the ontology languages used in the context of the Semantic Web. We present the following results on both query containment and query answering. We provide a method for query containment under Description Logic constraints, thus showing that the problem is decidable, and analyze its computational complexity. We prove that query containment is undecidable in the case where we allow inequalities in the right-hand side query, even for very simple constraints and queries. We show that query answering under Description Logic constraints can be reduced to query containment, and illustrate how such a reduction provides upper bound results with respect to both combined and data complexity.

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