A Revival of Integrity Constraints for Data Cleaning
Summary: Revival of integrity constraints (data dependencies) as core tools for data cleaning. Tutorial overview of recent advances in constraint-based data cleaning, highlighting methods, challenges, and future directions for data quality in database systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Wenfei Fan (AT&T; Harbin Institute of Technologies; University of Edinburgh)
- 2. Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh)
- 3. Xibei Jia (University of Edinburgh)
BibTeX Citation
@article{fan_vldb08,
title = {{A Revival of Integrity Constraints for Data Cleaning}},
author = {Fan, Wenfei and Geerts, Floris and Jia, Xibei},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '08},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
pages = {1522--1533},
doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454220},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454220},
year = {2008}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 549 | ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00016692839 |
| 2,759 | Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.1577506e-05 |
| 3,380 | UGuide – User-Guided Discovery of FD-Detectable Errors | 2017 | SIGMOD | 7.457539e-05 |
| 4,303 | Possible and Certain SQL Keys | 2015 | VLDB | 6.7711902e-05 |
| 5,931 | Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it | 2020 | CIDR | 6.0369708e-05 |
| 6,794 | Error Diagnosis and Data Profiling with Data X-Ray | 2015 | VLDB | 5.7712588e-05 |
| 7,749 | CoCo: Interactive Exploration of Conformance Constraints for Data Understanding and Data Cleaning | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.5525665e-05 |
| 12,038 | QFix: Demonstrating Error Diagnosis in Query Histories | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases | 1999 | PODS | 0.00049907763 |
| 533 | Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy | 2007 | VLDB | 0.0001705859 |
| 1,277 | Extending Dependencies with Conditions | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00011368191 |
| 6,013 | Semandaq: A Data Quality System Based on Conditional Functional Dependencies | 2008 | VLDB | 6.0094519e-05 |
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