The Complexity of Data Exchange

Summary: Shows weak acyclicity and a fixed mapping indispensable: slightest relaxation of weak acyclicity yields undecidability (via universal-algebra), and allowing the mapping as input makes the existence-of-solutions problem EXPTIME-complete. Classifies combined complexity for natural mapping restrictions as EXPTIME- or coNP-complete. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h497d2dfeae13e043
Venue: PODS
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 7.2055481e-05
Overall Rank: 3,561 | 76.06%
DOI: 10.1145/1142351.1142357

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Authors

1. Phokion G. Kolaitis (IBM; University of California Santa Cruz)
2. Jonathan Panttaja (University of California Santa Cruz)
3. Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California Santa Cruz)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kolaitis_pods06,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '06},
        title = {{The Complexity of Data Exchange}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142351.1142357},
        doi = {10.1145/1142351.1142357},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Kolaitis, Phokion G. and Panttaja, Jonathan and Tan, Wang-Chiew},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
539	The Chase Revisited	2008	PODS	0.00016735847
3,018	The Recovery of a Schema Mapping: Bringing Exchanged Data Back	2008	PODS	7.7471023e-05
3,614	On Reconciling Data Exchange, Data Integration, and Peer Data Management	2007	PODS	7.1605909e-05
4,896	CWA-Solutions for Data Exchange Settings with Target Dependencies	2007	PODS	6.3660709e-05
8,503	Reflections on Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2018	PODS	5.3294549e-05
8,591	XML Schema Mappings	2009	PODS	5.3070609e-05
8,943	Chase Termination: A Constraints Rewriting Approach	2010	VLDB	5.2542528e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055043581
190	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00025768763
392	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.0001922472
426	Translating Web Data	2002	VLDB	0.00018483901
703	Composing Schema Mappings: Second-Order Dependencies to the Rescue	2004	PODS	0.00014660132
1,522	Composition of Mappings Given by Embedded Dependencies	2005	PODS	0.00010367399
2,098	Functional and Inclusion Dependencies: A Graph Theoretic Approach	1984	PODS	9.0521246e-05
2,100	XML Data Exchange: Consistency and Query Answering	2005	PODS	9.050183e-05
4,301	The Inference Problem for Template Dependencies	1982	PODS	6.678167e-05

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