Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration

Summary: Survey and taxonomy of data fusion for integrating heterogeneous sources; tackles conflicting records and truth discovery. Introduces relational operators for conflict resolution, plus simple/advanced truth-finding methods and a fusion-centric evaluation of data-management systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9981
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 8.7815427e-05
Overall Rank: 2,453 | 82.96%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin Luna Dong
2. Felix Naumann

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 30 of 30 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
906	Fusing Data with Correlations	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015420344
1,214	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00013246179
1,245	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00013080304
2,422	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.8452901e-05
2,571	Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery and Source Reliability Estimation	2014	SIGMOD	8.5157375e-05
2,682	Online Data Fusion	2011	VLDB	8.3166884e-05
3,057	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	7.6458287e-05
3,107	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	7.5549177e-05
3,502	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.0333e-05
3,716	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	6.8170433e-05
3,767	Cleaning Crowdsourced Labels Using Oracles for Statistical Classification	2019	VLDB	6.7748725e-05
4,016	A Confidence-Aware Approach for Truth Discovery on Long-Tail Data	2015	VLDB	6.5280895e-05
4,102	Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration	2013	VLDB	6.4462412e-05
4,596	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.0540725e-05
5,454	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	5.4967096e-05
6,468	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.0448709e-05
6,808	Record Linkage with Uniqueness Constraints and Erroneous Values	2010	VLDB	4.9155856e-05
7,241	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	4.7867685e-05
7,547	SOLOMON: Seeking the Truth Via Copying Detection	2010	VLDB	4.7093124e-05
8,008	Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	4.6037276e-05
8,158	Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation	2022	VLDB	4.5701678e-05
8,358	Minimizing Efforts in Validating Crowd Answers	2015	SIGMOD	4.5324924e-05
8,719	Preference-aware Integration of Temporal Data	2015	VLDB	4.4564363e-05
8,747	Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact	2023	VLDB	4.4520434e-05
9,588	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	4.3175708e-05
10,370	Robust Statistical Analysis on Streaming Data with Near-Duplicates in General Metric Spaces	2025	PODS	4.1905499e-05
11,633	Leveraging Organizational Resources to Adapt Models to New Data Modalities	2020	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,732	HomeRun: Scalable Sparse-Spectrum Reconstruction of Aggregated Historical Data	2018	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,841	Streaming Algorithms for Robust Distinct Elements	2016	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,914	Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications	2015	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
493	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.00021782199
853	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00015892569
889	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00015548507
1,034	Outerjoins as Disjunctions	1994	SIGMOD	0.00014532543
1,075	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014233255
1,245	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00013080304
7,228	Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence	2009	CIDR	4.7903974e-05

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