A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration

Summary: Semex: platform that auto-inferrs semantic associations among heterogeneous desktop data to enable browsing via meaningful links. Uses the resulting personal-information graph to enable lightweight, user-centric information-integration tasks that current desktop tools struggle with. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4c7306bcb5ae5c6d
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 8.7118476e-05
Overall Rank: 2,273 | 84.72%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin (Luna) Dong (University of Washington)
2. Alon Halevy (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dong_cidr05,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '05},
        title = {{A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Dong, Xin (Luna) and Halevy, Alon},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
230	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023871933
319	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021164857
715	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.00014559092
824	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013646923
991	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012647155
1,114	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011964697
2,477	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.4079432e-05
2,639	Personal Information Management with Semex	2005	SIGMOD	8.1818057e-05
2,888	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	7.9072366e-05
5,220	Indexing Dataspaces	2007	SIGMOD	6.2220078e-05
5,319	Object-level Vertical Search	2007	CIDR	6.182759e-05
5,523	A First Tutorial on Dataspaces	2008	VLDB	6.0951795e-05
6,659	A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System	2007	CIDR	5.7179562e-05
6,691	Query Relaxation Using Malleable Schemas	2007	SIGMOD	5.70723e-05
7,782	Pushing the Boundaries of Crowd-enabled Databases with Query-driven Schema Expansion	2012	VLDB	5.4535412e-05
9,298	iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management	2006	VLDB	5.1989939e-05
12,801	Search Your Memory ! - An Associative Memory Based Desktop Search System	2009	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,922	HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications	2007	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,039	iMeMex: Escapes from the Personal Information Jungle	2005	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
161	Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning	2003	SIGMOD	0.00027718195
182	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00026277842
269	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022620777
407	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019026291
822	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013651306
2,986	A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases	2003	VLDB	7.7808566e-05

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