Designing and Refining Schema Mappings via Data Examples

Summary: Interactive design of schema mappings via data examples, GLAV-based. Sound, complete algorithm decides existence of a fitting GLAV mapping and builds the most general one; PH2-complete with practical performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4378
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.6737583e-05
Overall Rank: 3,872 | 73.10%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,885	The iBench Integration Metadata Generator	2016	VLDB	0.00010206139
2,081	Sample-Driven Schema Mapping	2012	SIGMOD	9.58883e-05
2,990	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	7.7727915e-05
5,097	EIRENE: Interactive Design and Refinement of Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	VLDB	5.6943323e-05
5,209	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	5.6245587e-05
5,252	Value Invention in Data Exchange	2013	SIGMOD	5.6002884e-05
6,736	Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis	2020	VLDB	4.9417961e-05
8,104	Automated Migration of Hierarchical Data to Relational Tables using Programming-by-Example	2018	VLDB	4.5815095e-05
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05
8,969	Knowledge Translation	2020	VLDB	4.415626e-05
9,355	GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example	2023	SIGMOD	4.3484264e-05
9,588	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	4.3175708e-05
9,661	Meta-Mappings for Schema Mapping Reuse	2019	VLDB	4.306608e-05
11,160	Extremal Fitting Problems for Conjunctive Queries	2023	PODS	4.1905499e-05
11,907	Defining Relations on Graphs: How Hard is it in the Presence of Node Partitions?	2015	PODS	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00069691761
483	Clio Grows Up: From Research Prototype to Industrial Tool	2005	SIGMOD	0.00022101908
493	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.00021782199
620	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.00018983367
1,067	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00014320456
2,035	Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs	2009	SIGMOD	9.7131385e-05
2,130	Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2010	PODS	9.4784293e-05
2,202	HePToX: Marrying XML and Heterogeneity in Your P2P Databases	2005	VLDB	9.3038561e-05
2,641	STBenchmark: Towards a Benchmark for Mapping Systems	2008	VLDB	8.3968228e-05
2,749	Implementing Mapping Composition	2006	VLDB	8.18014e-05
4,980	Towards a Theory of Schema-Mapping Optimization	2008	PODS	5.7825422e-05

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2,130	Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2010	PODS	9.4784293e-05
3,922	On the Complexity of Deriving Schema Mappings from Database Instances	2008	PODS	6.6238781e-05