An evidential reasoning approach to attribute value conflict resolution in database integration

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 707-723

  Lim, Ee Peng ^a,b   Srivastava, Jaideep ^a,c   Shekhar, Shashi ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute value conflict; Database integration; Evidential reasoning; Semantic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORMAL LOGIC; PROBABILITY;

ATTRIBUTE VALUE CONFLICT; DATABASE INTEGRATION PROCESS; DEMPSTER SHAFER THEORY; DOMAIN INCOMPATIBILITY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030262161     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.542025     Document Type: Article

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