Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics

Summary: For description-logic view definitions without existentials, a UCQ rewriting always exists and is answer-maximal. With existentials rewritings may be recursive; the paper gives an algorithm maximal on tree-shaped instances and shows maximal rewritings may not exist in general. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1107
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.5837937e-05
Overall Rank: 2,536 | 82.36%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
48	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00069720859
297	Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views	1998	PODS	0.00028596715
873	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00015752865
893	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00015558352
2,342	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.0015589e-05
3,168	Query Containment for Data Integration Systems	2000	PODS	7.4508875e-05
3,724	Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web	2005	CIDR	6.8173288e-05
5,471	Answering Queries Using Views with Arithmetic Comparisons	2002	PODS	5.4888202e-05
12,405	Ontologies and Databases: myths and challenges	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
82	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00054402763
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044642203
138	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00042334092
532	Answering Recursive Queries Using Views	1997	PODS	0.00020778506
578	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00019838707
976	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.0001489085
1,617	Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinitions	1995	SIGMOD	0.00011119837

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