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: hf04dbc779f64442b
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.253743e-05
Overall Rank: 2,579 | 82.72%
DOI: 10.1145/263661.263673

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Catriel Beeri (Hebrew University)
2. Alon Y. Levy (AT&T)
3. Marie-Christine Rousset (University of Paris)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{beeri_pods97,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '97},
        title = {{Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/263661.263673},
        doi = {10.1145/263661.263673},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Beeri, Catriel and Levy, Alon Y. and Rousset, Marie-Christine},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055201845
239	Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views	1998	PODS	0.00023510465
826	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013599086
909	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013122165
2,043	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.1266211e-05
3,103	Query Containment for Data Integration Systems	2000	PODS	7.6298414e-05
3,767	Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web	2005	CIDR	7.0171417e-05
5,516	Answering Queries Using Views with Arithmetic Comparisons	2002	PODS	6.0859896e-05
12,937	Ontologies and Databases: myths and challenges	2008	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037421163
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031526277
168	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00027117709
534	Answering Recursive Queries Using Views	1997	PODS	0.0001677412
579	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00016069665
1,057	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00012235875
1,833	Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinitions	1995	SIGMOD	9.532574e-05

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