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)
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Authors
- 1. Marcelo Arenas (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- 2. Leopoldo Bertossi (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- 3. Jan Chomicki (Monmouth University)
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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| 11,384 | LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,424 | Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,434 | Learning and Deducing Temporal Orders | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,524 | A Dichotomy in Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Unary Foreign Keys | 2022 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,654 | Temporal Dependencies for Graphs | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,210 | Certain Query Answering in Partially Consistent Databases | 2014 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,228 | Spanners: A Formal Framework for Information Extraction | 2013 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,671 | Randomized Algorithms for Data Reconciliation in Wide Area Aggregate Query Processing | 2007 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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