IBM UFO Repository: Object-Oriented Data Integration
Summary: Introduces Unified Famous Objects (UFOs), an object-oriented abstraction that masks heterogeneous representations and source schemas behind standard interfaces. The repository supports automatic object recognition, querying, exchange, recomposition, and enrichment from external sources. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael N. Gubanov (IBM; University of Washington)
- 2. Lucian Popa (IBM)
- 3. Howard Ho (IBM)
- 4. Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)
- 5. Jeng-Yih Chang (IBM; National Yang-Ming University)
- 6. Shr-Chang Chen (IBM; National Yang-Ming University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gubanov_vldb09,
title = {{IBM UFO Repository: Object-Oriented Data Integration}},
author = {Gubanov, Michael N. and Popa, Lucian and Ho, Howard and Pirahesh, Hamid and Chang, Jeng-Yih and Chen, Shr-Chang},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687601},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687601},
year = {2009}
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| 11,901 | Simplifying Access to Large-scale Structured Datasets by Meta-Profiling with Scalable Training Set Enrichment | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-05 |
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| 65 | Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0003826876 |
| 482 | Clio Grows Up: From Research Prototype to Industrial Tool | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00017543325 |
| 1,774 | Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management | 2003 | SIGMOD | 9.6749725e-05 |
| 2,015 | Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing | 2007 | SIGMOD | 9.1743528e-05 |
| 2,313 | Leveraging Data and Structure in Ontology Integration | 2007 | SIGMOD | 8.6414245e-05 |
| 3,727 | Damia: Data Mashups for Intranet Applications | 2008 | SIGMOD | 7.0451048e-05 |
| 4,225 | Querying Complex Structured Databases | 2007 | VLDB | 6.7098929e-05 |
| 5,247 | Indexing Dataspaces | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.1985096e-05 |
| 7,795 | Unifying Data and Domain Knowledge Using Virtual Views | 2007 | VLDB | 5.4348634e-05 |
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