Welcome to CSE-6490B — Issues in Information Integration — for winter term 2011.

Materials, instructions, and notices for the course will accumulate here over the semester.

There is no assigned textbook for the course. Instead, there will be assigned readings, chosen from journal and conference papers and book chapters on the topics.

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• Reading for Wednesday 25 January is up.

• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes & Materials
  
  0. Introduction (1-per PDF, 2-per PDF)
  1. Theory
     1. Semantics
        1. datalog
           • datalog basics (1-per PDF, 4-per PDF)
           • datalog & negation (1-per PDF, 4-per PDF)
        2. query containment
           1. conjunctive queries (CQ)¹: 1-per PDF
           2. Saraiya's containment test¹: 1-per PDF
           3. generalizations over CQ¹: 1-per PDF
           4. contaiment tests and arithmetic¹: 1-per PDF
           ¹Jeffrey D. Ullman's notes for Stanford's CS-345 (Fall 1996).
     2. Mediation
        • query folding²: 1-per PDF, 2-per PDF
        ²Michael Kossoff's notes for Stanford's CS-246 (Spring 2003).
     3. Other Data Models
  2. Practise
• Readings
  To be added incrementally.
  These are only accessible to people with a valid York CS&E account to honour copyright. You will need to authenticate.

• Assignments
• Projects
• Take-home Final