Using Probabilistic Information in Data Integration

Summary: Proposes probabilistic knowledge to guide query planning in mediator systems, modeling overlap, coverage, and relationships. Offers a declarative formalism and ranking algorithms to order sources for early results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0aa6ca848149e6c6
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 9.3791548e-05
Overall Rank: 1,908 | 87.22%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniela Florescu (AT&T)
2. Daphne Koller (Stanford University)
3. Alon Levy (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{florescu_vldb97,
        title = {{Using Probabilistic Information in Data Integration}},
        author = {Florescu, Daniela and Koller, Daphne and Levy, Alon},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {216--225},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
336	An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration*	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020619345
507	A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration	2012	VLDB	0.00017144751
718	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.00014507333
2,687	Enhanced hypertext categorization using hyperlinks	1998	SIGMOD	8.1156459e-05
3,413	Quality-driven Integration of Heterogeneous Information Systems	1999	VLDB	7.3058316e-05
5,665	Foundations of Uncertain-Data Integration	2010	VLDB	6.0292508e-05
6,099	BibFinder/StatMiner: Effectively Mining and Using Coverage and Overlap Statistics in Data Integration	2003	VLDB	5.8699655e-05
6,881	Estimating the Impact of Unknown Unknowns on Aggregate Query Results	2016	SIGMOD	5.6415853e-05
12,523	Online Ordering of Overlapping Data Sources	2014	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031526277
401	Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems	1996	SIGMOD	0.00019080589

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