Merging databases: Problems and examples

✍ Scribed by Laurence Cholvy; Serafin Moral

• Book ID: 102279840
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0884-8173
• DOI: 10.1002/int.1056

✦ Synopsis

This paper focuses on databases merging, which is one particular case of data fusion. Databases merging is the process which consists of integrating, physically or virtually, the data provided by several databases. With examples throughout the paper, we stress the main problems raised by databases merging and we present, not exhaustively, some solutions. The topics receiving deepest study are: cases matching, inconsistency handling and summarizing data.