Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration

Summary: Tutorial on data fusion for resolving conflicts among heterogeneous sources during integration, covering conflict causes and challenges. Surveys relational and advanced truth-discovery techniques and classifies information-management systems by their fusion capabilities. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10171
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 9.772895e-05
Overall Rank: 1,783 | 87.77%
DOI: 10.14778/1687553.1687620

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Authors

1. Xin Luna Dong (AT&T)
2. Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dong_vldb09,
        title = {{Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration}},
        author = {Dong, Xin Luna and Naumann, Felix},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687620},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687620},
        year = {2009}
}

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955	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012996675
1,273	Fusing Data with Correlations	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011384191
1,393	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010934682
2,290	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.799251e-05
2,307	Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery and Source Reliability Estimation	2014	SIGMOD	8.7750499e-05
2,351	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.7099618e-05
2,759	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.1577506e-05
3,052	Online Data Fusion	2011	VLDB	7.8105426e-05
3,281	Cleaning Crowdsourced Labels Using Oracles for Statistical Classification	2019	VLDB	7.5706653e-05
3,304	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	7.5404346e-05
3,495	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.3636386e-05
3,542	A Confidence-Aware Approach for Truth Discovery on Long-Tail Data	2015	VLDB	7.3279455e-05
4,087	Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration	2013	VLDB	6.9141684e-05
4,100	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.9016092e-05
4,959	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	6.4283324e-05
6,461	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.8718966e-05
6,723	Record Linkage with Uniqueness Constraints and Erroneous Values	2010	VLDB	5.792469e-05
7,424	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.6214566e-05
7,699	SOLOMON: Seeking the Truth Via Copying Detection	2010	VLDB	5.5652613e-05
8,077	Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation	2022	VLDB	5.4926436e-05
8,105	Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	5.4860105e-05
8,351	Minimizing Efforts in Validating Crowd Answers	2015	SIGMOD	5.4454221e-05
8,921	Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact	2023	VLDB	5.3483178e-05
8,946	Preference-aware Integration of Temporal Data	2015	VLDB	5.3479739e-05
9,726	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	5.2302483e-05
10,156	Frequency Moments in Noisy Streaming and Distributed Data under Mismatch Ambiguity	2026	PODS	5.093636e-05
10,651	Robust Statistical Analysis on Streaming Data with Near-Duplicates in General Metric Spaces	2025	PODS	5.093636e-05
11,824	Leveraging Organizational Resources to Adapt Models to New Data Modalities	2020	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,897	Distinct Sampling on Streaming Data with Near-Duplicates	2018	PODS	5.093636e-05
11,931	HomeRun: Scalable Sparse-Spectrum Reconstruction of Aggregated Historical Data	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,034	Streaming Algorithms for Robust Distinct Elements	2016	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,105	Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
377	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.00019643793
762	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014231163
890	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00013382697
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
1,176	Outerjoins as Disjunctions	1994	SIGMOD	0.00011809075
1,393	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010934682
7,237	Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence	2009	CIDR	5.6646649e-05

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