Classification of Annotation Semirings over Query Containment
Summary: Axiomatizes commutative annotation semirings under which conjunctive-query containment reduces to existence of specific homomorphisms, covering provenance, probability and multiplicity annotations. Characterizes when such homomorphism checks are necessary/sufficient and derives new decision procedures for containment of unions of conjunctive queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Egor V. Kostylev (University of Edinburgh)
- 2. Juan L. Reutter (University of Edinburgh)
- 3. András Z. Salamon (University of Edinburgh)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kostylev_pods12,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '12},
title = {{Classification of Annotation Semirings over Query Containment}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213556.2213590},
doi = {10.1145/2213556.2213590},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Kostylev, Egor V. and Reutter, Juan L. and Salamon, András Z.},
year = {2012}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,946 | Bag Semantics Conjunctive Query Containment. Four Small Steps Towards Undecidability. | 2024 | PODS | 5.1915905e-05 |
| 10,639 | Circuit Bounds for Conjunctive Queries with Self-joins | 2025 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,650 | Rewriting Consistent Answers on Annotated Data | 2025 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Provenance Semirings | 2007 | PODS | 0.00059843817 |
| 309 | Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries | 1993 | PODS | 0.00021768596 |
| 1,060 | Curated Databases | 2008 | PODS | 0.00012371807 |
| 1,269 | The Containment Problem for Real Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities | 2006 | PODS | 0.000113935 |
| 2,339 | Quasi-inverses of Schema Mappings | 2007 | PODS | 8.7249825e-05 |
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