Object Fusion in Mediator Systems

Summary: Non-procedural, succinct fusion primitives for mediators using semantic IDs assigned on import to drive object merges and exports. Targets unstructured/semi-structured sources, resolves redundancies and inconsistencies by privileging reliable sources, and presents optimization techniques to cut fusion costs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb0dd72c37e179c37
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 0.00011590876
Overall Rank: 1,190 | 92.01%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yannis Papakonstantinou (Stanford University)
2. Serge Abiteboul (Stanford University)
3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{papakonstantinou_vldb96,
        title = {{Object Fusion in Mediator Systems}},
        author = {Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Abiteboul, Serge and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {413},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
326	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020963333
356	Regular Path Queries with Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00020103855
662	Your Mediators Need Data Conversion!	1998	SIGMOD	0.00015001476
699	Query Containment for Conjunctive Queries With Regular Expressions	1998	PODS	0.00014686953
1,076	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00012159025
1,251	Semistructured Data	1997	PODS	0.00011337126
1,315	DTD Inference for Views of XML Data	2000	PODS	0.00011058412
2,317	Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract)	1999	PODS	8.6477878e-05
2,849	Nested Mappings: Schema Mapping Reloaded	2006	VLDB	7.942171e-05
3,388	On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration	2000	SIGMOD	7.3520437e-05
3,751	Dynamic XML Documents with Distribution and Replication	2003	SIGMOD	7.0519156e-05
3,819	STRUDEL: A Web-site Management System	1997	SIGMOD	7.0060482e-05
4,247	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.7046463e-05
4,882	Value Invention in Data Exchange	2013	SIGMOD	6.3711076e-05
10,011	Object Fusion in Geographic Information Systems	2004	VLDB	5.0979044e-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
413	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018681401
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012597028
1,707	Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies	1991	SIGMOD	9.8298117e-05

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