Object Fusion in Mediator Systems

Summary: Non-procedural, succinct fusion primitives for mediators using semantic IDs assigned on import to drive object merges and exports. Targets unstructured/semi-structured sources, resolves redundancies and inconsistencies by privileging reliable sources, and presents optimization techniques to cut fusion costs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8553
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 0.00011845214
Overall Rank: 1,167 | 92.00%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yannis Papakonstantinou (Stanford University)
2. Serge Abiteboul (Stanford University)
3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{papakonstantinou_vldb96,
        title = {{Object Fusion in Mediator Systems}},
        author = {Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Abiteboul, Serge and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {413},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
318	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021380325
348	Regular Path Queries with Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00020518814
645	Your Mediators Need Data Conversion!	1998	SIGMOD	0.00015338713
686	Query Containment for Conjunctive Queries With Regular Expressions	1998	PODS	0.00014948634
1,060	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00012371807
1,233	Semistructured Data	1997	PODS	0.00011562468
1,290	DTD Inference for Views of XML Data	2000	PODS	0.00011312135
2,261	Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract)	1999	PODS	8.846133e-05
2,785	Nested Mappings: Schema Mapping Reloaded	2006	VLDB	8.1236628e-05
3,325	On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration	2000	SIGMOD	7.5196252e-05
3,667	Dynamic XML Documents with Distribution and Replication	2003	SIGMOD	7.2133927e-05
3,734	STRUDEL: A Web-site Management System	1997	SIGMOD	7.1649073e-05
4,172	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.8535493e-05
4,768	Value Invention in Data Exchange	2013	SIGMOD	6.5171839e-05
9,823	Object Fusion in Geographic Information Systems	2004	VLDB	5.214913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
403	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.0001907249
971	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012875736
1,672	Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies	1991	SIGMOD	0.0001004199

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