17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'06)
Invited Paper: Consistent Query Answering: Opportunities and Limitations
Krakow, Poland
September 04-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2641-1
This paper briefly reviews the recent literature on consistent query answering, an approach to handle database inconsistency in a systematic and logical manner based on the notion of repair. It discusses some computational and semantic limitations of consistent query answering, and summarizes selected research directions in this area.