A Time Machine for Information: Looking Back to Look Forward

Summary: Tutorial on time-aware information integration: incrementally reconstructing entity histories from heterogeneous sources while extracting temporal signals, linking identities, and resolving conflicting facts. Covers scalable historical queries, trend detection, analytics, and knowledge curation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11303
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.2880344e-05
Overall Rank: 9,335 | 35.96%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824115

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin Luna Dong (Google)
2. Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California Santa Cruz)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dong_vldb15,
        title = {{A Time Machine for Information: Looking Back to Look Forward}},
        author = {Dong, Xin Luna and Tan, Wang-Chiew},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2044--2047},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824115},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824115},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,435	Exploring Change – A New Dimension of Data Analytics	2019	VLDB	6.2207492e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
65	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.00038697603
427	Big Data Integration	2013	VLDB	0.00018661543
3,815	Longitudinal Analytics on Web Archive Data: It's About Time!	2011	CIDR	7.1003162e-05
9,726	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	5.2302483e-05

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