Interactive Join Query Inference with JIM

Summary: JIM interactively infers n-ary join predicates from user-labeled positive/negative result tuples, targeting joins across disparate sources and weak metadata. It identifies uninformative tuples and adaptively selects queries to minimize user interactions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h8f2c6b254be5ffcd
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 6.6287141e-05
Overall Rank: 4,358 | 70.79%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733025
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Authors

1. Angela Bonifati (INRIA; University of Lille)
2. Radu Ciucanu (INRIA; University of Lille)
3. Sławek Staworko (INRIA; University of Lille)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bonifati_vldb14,
        title = {{Interactive Join Query Inference with JIM}},
        author = {Bonifati, Angela and Ciucanu, Radu and Staworko, Sławek},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1541--1544},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733025},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733025},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,491	SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example	2016	VLDB	7.2397384e-05
5,711	Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness	2017	VLDB	6.0101399e-05
5,992	Active Learning of GAV Schema Mappings	2018	PODS	5.9058443e-05
8,994	Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources	2023	VLDB	5.2284279e-05
9,654	Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples	2016	SIGMOD	5.1310198e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
266	Human-powered Sorts and Joins	2012	VLDB	0.00022701006
873	Leveraging Transitive Relations for Crowdsourced Joins	2013	SIGMOD	0.00013306946
5,419	EIRENE: Interactive Design and Refinement of Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	VLDB	6.1249659e-05

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