Automatic conflict resolution in a CDSS

  • Authors:
  • Fayez Khazalah;Zaki Malik;Brahim Medjahed

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, MI;Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, MI;Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A Collaborative Data Sharing System (CDSS) allows groups of scientists to work together and share their data in the presence of disparate database schemas and instances. Each group can extend, curate, and revise its own database instance in a disconnected mode. At some later point, the group may publish the updates it made for the benefit of others and to get updates from other groups (if any). Any conflicting updates are handled by the reconciliation operation which usually rejects such updates temporally and marks them as "deferred". The deferred set is then resolved manually according to pre-defined data reconciliation policies, priorities, etc. for the whole group. In this paper, we present an approach to resolve conflicts in an automatic manner. The focus is to resolve conflicts in the deferred set by collecting feedbacks about the quality of conflicting updates from local users, and then weighing, and aggregating the different feedbacks to assess the most "trusted" update.