Duplicate detection determines different representations of realworld objects in a database. Recent research has considered the use of relationships among object representations t...
We propose a class of constraints, referred to as conditional functional dependencies (CFDs), and study their applications in data cleaning. In contrast to traditional functional ...
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei ...
The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
: While the common kinds of uncertainties in databases (e.g., null values, disjunction, corrupt/missing data, domain mismatch, etc.) have been extensively studied, a relatively une...
The amount of data collected and stored in databases is growing considerably for almost all areas of human activity. Processing this amount of data is very expensive, both humanly...