Abstract

In many database applications there is the need of extracting information from incomplete data. In such scenarios, certain answers are the most widely adopted semantics of query answering. Unfortunately, the computation of certain query answers is a coNP-hard problem. To make query answering feasible in practice, recent research has focused on developing polynomial time algorithms computing sound (but possibly incomplete) sets of certain answers. In this paper, we propose a novel technique that allows us to improve recently proposed approximation algorithms, obtaining a good balance between running time and quality of the results. We report experimental results confirming the effectiveness of the new technique.

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