Answering Queries Addressed to Several Databases According to a Majority Merging Approach

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-201

  Cholvy, Laurence ^a   Garion, Christophe ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Database merging; Deductive databases; Logic; Majority merging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MERGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY;

DATABASE MERGING; DEDUCTIVE DATABASES; MAJORITY MERGING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 1442309099     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JIIS.0000012469.11873.bb     Document Type: Article

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