Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability

Summary: Introduces mSeer, which revises mediated schemas to improve matchability while preserving semantics. It scores matching quality, diagnoses obstacles, and suggests changes such as attribute renaming and value reformatting, validated on real-world domains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9904
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.3321017e-05
Overall Rank: 9,015 | 38.15%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454166

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Authors

1. Xiaoyong Chai (University of Wisconsin)
2. Mayssam Sayyadian (University of Wisconsin)
3. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin)
4. Arnon Rosenthal (The MITRE Corporation)
5. Len Seligman (The MITRE Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chai_vldb08,
        title = {{Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability}},
        author = {Chai, Xiaoyong and Sayyadian, Mayssam and Doan, AnHai and Rosenthal, Arnon and Seligman, Len},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {773--784},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454166},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454166},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,492	HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching	2009	VLDB	6.2001088e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
808	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013884332
834	Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes	2006	VLDB	0.00013724553
1,030	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00012545209
1,158	Schema and Ontology Matching with COMA++	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011899424
1,566	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010346227
1,939	iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas	2004	SIGMOD	9.4490491e-05
2,252	Leveraging Data and Structure in Ontology Integration	2007	SIGMOD	8.8675372e-05
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05
2,538	Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios	2005	VLDB	8.4548936e-05
2,842	Incremental Schema Matching	2006	VLDB	8.0624613e-05
6,536	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.8486657e-05
9,141	Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System	2007	VLDB	5.3158069e-05

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