Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-1994
Abstract
Resolving domain incompatibility among independently developed databases often involves uncertain information. DeMichiel (1989) showed that uncertain information can be generated by the mapping of conflicting attributes to a common domain, based on some domain knowledge. The authors show that uncertain information can also arise when the database integration process requires information not directly represented in the component databases, but can be obtained through some summary of data. They therefore propose an extended relational model based on Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence (1976) to incorporate such uncertain knowledge about the source databases. They also develop a full set of extended relational operations over the extended relations. In particular, an extended union operation has been formalized to combine two extended relations using Dempster's rule of combination. The closure and boundedness properties of the proposed extended operations are formulated.
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems
Publication
10th International Conference on Data Engineering: Proceedings: February 14-18, 1994, Houson, Texas
First Page
154
Last Page
163
ISBN
9780818654008
Identifier
10.1109/ICDE.1994.283022
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
City or Country
Los Alamitos, CA
Citation
Ee-peng LIM and SHEKHAR, Shashi.
Resolving attribute incompatibility in database integration: An evidential reasoning approach. (1994). 10th International Conference on Data Engineering: Proceedings: February 14-18, 1994, Houson, Texas. 154-163.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2903
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Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.1994.283022