
Databases in real life are often neither entirely closed-world nor entirely open-world. Databases in an enterprise are typically partially closed , in which a part of the data is constrained by master data that contains complete information about the enterprise in certain aspects. It has been shown that, despite missing tuples, such a database may turn out to have complete information for answering a query. This article studies partially closed databases from which both tuples and attribute values may be missing. We specify such a database in terms of conditional tables constrained by master data, referred to as c -instances. We first propose three models to characterize whether a c -instance T is complete for a query Q relative to master data. That is, depending on how missing values in T are instantiated, the answer to Q in T remains unchanged when new tuples are added. We then investigate three problems, to determine (a) whether a given c -instance is complete for a query Q , (b) whether there exists a c -instance that is complete for Q relative to master data available, and (c) whether a c -instance is a minimal-size database that is complete for Q . We establish matching lower and upper bounds on these problems for queries expressed in a variety of languages in each of the three models for specifying relative completeness.
Computer. Automation
Computer. Automation
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