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Enumeration Complexity of Unions of Conjunctive Queries

Nofar Carmeli
Technion
AG1 Mittagsseminar (own work)
AG 1, AG 5  
AG Audience
English

Date, Time and Location

Thursday, 13 February 2020
13:00
30 Minutes
E1 4
024
Saarbrücken

Abstract

We discuss the complexity of enumerating (listing) the answers to a query over a relational database. We focus on the ability to list the answers with linear preprocessing and constant time per answer. A known dichotomy classifies Conjunctive Queries (CQs) into those that admit such enumeration and those that do not. I will talk about our research towards extending this dichotomy to the class of Unions of CQs (UCQs). A union of tractable CQs is always tractable. We show that, counter to previous beliefs, some non-redundant unions containing intractable CQs are tractable. Interestingly, some unions consisting of only intractable CQs are tractable too. The question of finding a full characterization of the tractability of UCQs remains open.

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Karl Bringmann
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Karl Bringmann, 01/21/2020 17:56 -- Created document.