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Article Dans Une Revue Logical Methods in Computer Science Année : 2022

When Can We Answer Queries Using Result-Bounded Data Interfaces?

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We consider answering queries on data available through access methods, that provide lookup access to the tuples matching a given binding. Such interfaces are common on the Web; further, they often have bounds on how many results they can return, e.g., because of pagination or rate limits. We thus study result-bounded methods, which may return only a limited number of tuples. We study how to decide if a query is answerable using result-bounded methods, i.e., how to compute a plan that returns all answers to the query using the methods, assuming that the underlying data satisfies some integrity constraints. We first show how to reduce answerability to a query containment problem with constraints. Second, we show "schema simplification" theorems describing when and how result-bounded services can be used. Finally, we use these theorems to give decidability and complexity results about answerability for common constraint classes.

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hal-03712199 , version 1 (02-07-2022)

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Antoine Amarilli, Michael Benedikt. When Can We Answer Queries Using Result-Bounded Data Interfaces?. Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2022. ⟨hal-03712199⟩
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