CerFix: A System for Cleaning Data with Certain Fixes

Summary: CerFix enables certain fixes at data entry via master data, editing rules, and region-based validation. Regions define attribute sets whose validation triggers fixes; region finder, data monitor guiding minimal validation, and auditing with provenance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc52849bff8f1c77c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.2124294e-05
Overall Rank: 9,178 | 38.30%
DOI: 10.14778/3402755.3402774

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (Harbin Engineering University; University of Edinburgh)
2. Jianzhong Li (Harbin Engineering University)
3. Shuai Ma (Beihang University)
4. Nan Tang (University of Edinburgh)
5. Wenyuan Yu (University of Edinburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fan_vldb11,
        title = {{CerFix: A System for Cleaning Data with Certain Fixes}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Li, Jianzhong and Ma, Shuai and Tang, Nan and Yu, Wenyuan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1375--1386},
        doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402774},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402774},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,504	Query-Oriented Data Cleaning with Oracles	2015	SIGMOD	8.3782213e-05
9,616	GIDCL: A Graph-Enhanced Interpretable Data Cleaning Framework with Large Language Models	2024	SIGMOD	5.1510548e-05
11,738	Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities	2023	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
188	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00025872962
526	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00016886621
618	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00015536912
716	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00014553463
989	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.0001265344

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