Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration

Summary: Less is more: select a subset of sources before integration to balance data quality and costs. Randomized source selection for data fusion, grounded in Marginalism, enables scalable, empirical trade-offs on real and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10890
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.9141684e-05
Overall Rank: 4,087 | 71.97%
DOI: 10.14778/2535568.2535569

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin Luna Dong (AT&T)
2. Barna Saha (AT&T)
3. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dong_vldb13,
        title = {{Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration}},
        author = {Dong, Xin Luna and Saha, Barna and Srivastava, Divesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {2},
        pages = {37--48},
        doi = {10.14778/2535568.2535569},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535568.2535569},
        year = {2013}
}

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Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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
2,025	Data Market Platforms: Trading Data Assets to Solve Data Problems	2020	VLDB	9.2903125e-05
2,185	Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets	2016	SIGMOD	9.0026006e-05
2,351	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.7099618e-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
3,715	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	7.1763559e-05
6,297	Characterizing and Selecting Fresh Data Sources	2014	SIGMOD	5.9228047e-05
7,628	User Guidance for Efficient Fact Checking	2019	VLDB	5.5798467e-05
9,019	SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection	2016	SIGMOD	5.3309706e-05
12,094	Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration	2015	CIDR	5.093636e-05
13,577	StoryPivot: Comparing and Contrasting Story Evolution	2015	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
504	A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration	2012	VLDB	0.00017300628
890	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00013382697
955	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012996675
1,576	Data Markets in the Cloud: An Opportunity for the Database Community	2011	VLDB	0.00010317008
1,783	Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration	2009	VLDB	9.772895e-05
6,745	Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Towards User-Centric Web-Databases	2007	SIGMOD	5.7850528e-05

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