The area of deductive databases has matured in recent years, and it now seems appropriate
to reflect upon what has been achieved and what the future holds. In this paper, we provide …

With the advent of Semantic Web languages such as OWL (Web Ontology Language), the
expressive Description Logic [special characters omitted] is exposed to a wider audience of …

Comprehensive consistency management requires a strong mechanism for repair once
inconsistencies have been detected In this paper we present a repair framework for …

In this article we present an approach to integrity maintenance, consisting of automatically
generating production rules for integrity enforcement. Constraints are expressed as …

When updating a knowledge base, several problems may arise. One of the most important
problems is that of integrity constraints satisfaction. The classic approach to this problem has …

In this paper we review the research on integrity enforcement in database systems. Integrity
enforcement is the task of ensuring that a user transaction applied to a legal database state …

Integrating data and knowledge from multiple heterogeneous sources--like databases,
knowledge bases or specific software packages--is often required for answering certain …

During the process of updating a database, two interrelated problems could arise. On one
hand, when an update is applied to the database, integrity constraints could become …

One of the most fundamental uses of a computer is to store and retrieve information,
particularly when there is a large amount of data to be stored, or there are complex …

We present an approach for integrating inter-object constraint maintenance seamlessly into
an object-oriented database system. We develop a constraint compilation scheme that …