Conjunctive Query Containment in Description Logics with n-ary Relations

Proc. of the 10th Int. Workshop on Description Logics (DL 1997). 1997.

Recent research points out that query containment is a central problem in several database and knowledge base applications, including data warehousing, data integration, query optimization, and (materialized) view maintenance. In this paper we present a decision procedure for containment of conjunctive queries defined over a database schema specified in a very expressive description logic, comprising n-ary relations and general inclusion axioms on both concepts and relations.

@inproceedings{DL-1997,
   title = "Conjunctive Query Containment in Description Logics with n-ary
Relations",
   year = "1997",
   author = "Diego Calvanese and De Giacomo, Giuseppe and Maurizio
Lenzerini",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 10th Int. Workshop on Description Logics
(DL 1997)",
   pages = "5--9",
}