Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration

Summary: Tutorial on data fusion for resolving conflicts among heterogeneous sources during integration, covering conflict causes and challenges. Surveys relational and advanced truth-discovery techniques and classifies information-management systems by their fusion capabilities. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hd843041e15458322
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 9.6966864e-05
Overall Rank: 1,761 | 88.20%
DOI: 10.14778/1687553.1687620

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin Luna Dong (AT&T)
2. Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dong_vldb09,
        title = {{Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration}},
        author = {Dong, Xin Luna and Naumann, Felix},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687620},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687620},
        year = {2009}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
939	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012945534
1,283	Fusing Data with Correlations	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011195703
1,389	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010806623
2,271	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.7110698e-05
2,283	Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery and Source Reliability Estimation	2014	SIGMOD	8.6888288e-05
2,396	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.5109743e-05
2,685	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.116387e-05
2,825	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	7.9503483e-05
3,088	Online Data Fusion	2011	VLDB	7.6447052e-05
3,318	Cleaning Crowdsourced Labels Using Oracles for Statistical Classification	2019	VLDB	7.4142395e-05
3,327	A Confidence-Aware Approach for Truth Discovery on Long-Tail Data	2015	VLDB	7.4101504e-05
3,556	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.187165e-05
4,135	Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration	2013	VLDB	6.7717878e-05
4,186	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.7408641e-05
4,852	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	6.3680596e-05
6,608	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.7187078e-05
6,869	Record Linkage with Uniqueness Constraints and Erroneous Values	2010	VLDB	5.6446612e-05
7,438	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.5123601e-05
7,865	SOLOMON: Seeking the Truth Via Copying Detection	2010	VLDB	5.4217315e-05
8,269	Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation	2022	VLDB	5.3491154e-05
8,306	Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	5.3426557e-05
8,541	Minimizing Efforts in Validating Crowd Answers	2015	SIGMOD	5.304278e-05
9,028	Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact	2023	VLDB	5.2198349e-05
9,089	Preference-aware Integration of Temporal Data	2015	VLDB	5.2094039e-05
9,936	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	5.0936191e-05
10,451	Frequency Moments in Noisy Streaming and Distributed Data under Mismatch Ambiguity	2026	PODS	4.9605343e-05
10,838	IncreQueryFusion: On-demand Data Fusion Framework in Dynamic Data Lakes	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,164	Robust Statistical Analysis on Streaming Data with Near-Duplicates in General Metric Spaces	2025	PODS	4.9605343e-05
12,175	Leveraging Organizational Resources to Adapt Models to New Data Modalities	2020	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,246	Distinct Sampling on Streaming Data with Near-Duplicates	2018	PODS	4.9605343e-05
12,279	HomeRun: Scalable Sparse-Spectrum Reconstruction of Aggregated Historical Data	2018	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,378	Streaming Algorithms for Robust Distinct Elements	2016	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,447	Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications	2015	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
393	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.00019157229
795	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013895182
826	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013599086
877	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00013267412
1,201	Outerjoins as Disjunctions	1994	SIGMOD	0.00011523243
1,389	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010806623
7,409	Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence	2009	CIDR	5.5168332e-05

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