Muse: A System for Understanding and Designing Mappings

Summary: Muse is a data-example driven mapping design tool implemented atop Clio. It uses small data instances to reveal how mapping changes alter semantics, differentiating competing specifications and guiding designers toward the intended mapping. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4144
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.50512e-05
Overall Rank: 8,025 | 44.95%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376755

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Authors

1. Bogdan Alexe (University of California Santa Cruz)
2. Laura Chiticariu (University of California Santa Cruz)
3. Renee J. Miller (University of Toronto)
4. Daniel Pepper (University of California Santa Cruz)
5. Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California Santa Cruz)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{alexe_sigmod08,
        title = {{Muse: A System for Understanding and Designing Mappings}},
        author = {Alexe, Bogdan and Chiticariu, Laura and Miller, Renee J. and Pepper, Daniel and Tan, Wang-Chiew},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376755},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376755},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,655	DEMo: Data Exchange Modeling Tool	2009	VLDB	6.5837448e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
416	Translating Web Data	2002	VLDB	0.00018877803
469	Clio Grows Up: From Research Prototype to Industrial Tool	2005	SIGMOD	0.00017973925
834	Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes	2006	VLDB	0.00013724553
1,030	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00012545209
2,785	Nested Mappings: Schema Mapping Reloaded	2006	VLDB	8.1236628e-05

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