A Survey on Uncertainty Management in Data Integration

  • Authors:
  • Matteo Magnani;Danilo Montesi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bologna;University of Bologna

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the last few years, uncertainty management has come to be recognized as a fundamental aspect of data integration. It is now accepted that it may not be possible to remove uncertainty generated during data integration processes and that uncertainty in itself may represent a source of relevant information. Several issues, such as the aggregation of uncertain mappings and the querying of uncertain mediated schemata, have been addressed by applying well-known uncertainty management theories. However, several problems lie unresolved. This article sketches an initial picture of this highly active research area; it details existing works in the light of a homogeneous framework, and identifies and discusses the leading issues awaiting solutions.