Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery and Source Reliability Estimation

Summary: Unified optimization to resolve conflicts among heterogeneous data by jointly inferring truths and source reliability. Loss-aware, unified objective handles heterogeneous types; validated on weather, stock, and flight data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4880
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 8.5239306e-05
Overall Rank: 2,567 | 82.15%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610509

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2,937	Truth Inference in Crowdsourcing: Is the Problem Solved?	2017	VLDB	7.853108e-05
3,495	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.0400666e-05
3,897	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	6.6554845e-05
4,011	A Confidence-Aware Approach for Truth Discovery on Long-Tail Data	2015	VLDB	6.5343479e-05
5,405	Truth Discovery and Crowdsourcing Aggregation: A Unified Perspective	2015	VLDB	5.5257718e-05
5,412	Mining an "Anti-Knowledge Base" from Wikipedia Updates with Applications to Fact Checking and Beyond	2020	VLDB	5.5207515e-05
6,557	Knowledge Verification for Long-Tail Verticals	2017	VLDB	5.0124455e-05
6,780	Domain-Aware Multi-Truth Discovery from Conflicting Sources	2018	VLDB	4.9277708e-05
7,117	Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	4.826509e-05
7,668	Human-in-the-loop Data Integration	2017	VLDB	4.6834075e-05
7,784	Authenticated Online Data Integration Services	2015	SIGMOD	4.6517065e-05
9,369	Constraint-Variance Tolerant Data Repairing	2016	SIGMOD	4.3481081e-05
9,409	Ground Truth Inference for Weakly Supervised Entity Matching	2023	SIGMOD	4.3441378e-05
10,855	bNDCRepair: Cleaning both Data Errors and Inaccurate Constraints on Numerical Sequential Data	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,965	High Precision ≠ High Cost: Temporal Data Fusion for Multiple Low-Precision Sensors	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,006	FusionQuery: On-demand Fusion Queries over Multi-source Heterogeneous Data	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-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
371	A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration	2012	VLDB	0.00025389696
398	Big Data Integration	2013	VLDB	0.00024372588
855	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00015906735
1,211	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00013257101
2,452	Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration	2009	VLDB	8.7839322e-05

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