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Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases

Summary: Defines consistent answers as query results invariant across all minimal repairs of an inconsistent relational database. Presents an iterative algorithm, with soundness/completeness for some constraint/query classes and termination proofs for several constraint types. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1161
Venue
PODS
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00049907763
Overall Rank
33 | 99.78%
DOI
10.1145/303976.303983

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{arenas_pods99,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '99},
        title = {{Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/303976.303983},
        doi = {10.1145/303976.303983},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Arenas, Marcelo and Bertossi, Leopoldo and Chomicki, Jan},
        year = {1999}
}

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2,914 Reverse Data Management 2011 VLDB 7.9667467e-05
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4,303 Possible and Certain SQL Keys 2015 VLDB 6.7711902e-05
4,431 Database Principles in Information Extraction 2014 PODS 6.7088601e-05
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