A logic-based calculus of events
New Generation Computing
Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Stable semantics for probabilistic deductive databases
Information and Computation
Query reformulation for dynamic information integration
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on intelligent integration of information
Template-based wrappers in the TSIMMIS system
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
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A Web-based information system that reasons with structured collections of text
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Reasoning About Data Provided By Federated Deductive Databases
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Modeling Web sources for information integration
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Handling inconsistency for multi-source integration
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
A general formal framework for schema transformation
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Consistent query answers in inconsistent databases
PODS '99 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Prolog (3rd ed.): programming for artificial intelligence
Prolog (3rd ed.): programming for artificial intelligence
Semantic integration of heterogeneous information sources
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on heterogeneous information resources need semantic access
logic-based techniques in data integration
Logic-based artificial intelligence
Merging structured text using temporal knowledge
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Logical fusion rules for merging structured news reports
Data & Knowledge Engineering
The Management of Probabilistic Data
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Arbitration (or How to Merge Knowledge Bases)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Two Information Measures for Inconsistent Sets
Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Imprecise and Uncertain Information in Databases: An Evidential Approach
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Data Engineering
TAMBIS: Transparent Access to Multiple Bioinformatics Information Sources
ISMB '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
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VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
The Theory of Probabilistic Databases
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Measuring inconsistency in knowledge via quasi-classical models
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
Source Integration in Data Warehousing
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Query Processing in the TAMBIS Bioinformatics Source Integration System
SSDBM '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
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Information fusion in the context of multi-document summarization
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Logical comparison of inconsistent perspectives using scoring functions
Knowledge and Information Systems
How to act on inconsistent news: ignore, resolve, or reject
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Merging uncertain information with semantic heterogeneity in XML
Knowledge and Information Systems
Merging news reports that describe events
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Fusion rules for merging uncertain information
Information Fusion
Logic programs for consistently querying data integration systems
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Quantifying information and contradiction in propositional logic through test actions
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Evaluating significance of inconsistencies
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Planning executing sensing and replanning for information gathering
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Artificial intelligence today
Measuring the quality of uncertain information using possibilistic logic
ECSQARU'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
OILing the way to machine understandable bioinformatics resources
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Building a bioinformatics ontology using OIL
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Information and Software Technology
Ontology-based information extraction and integration from heterogeneous data sources
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Merging element fuzzy cognitive maps
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
An Active Classification System for Context Representation and Acquisition
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Advances in Ambient Intelligence
Semantic-based Merging of RSS Items
World Wide Web
Representation of functional micro-knowledge cell (FMKC) for conceptual design
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Quantifying knowledge base inconsistency via fixpoint semantics
Transactions on computational science II
The Knowledge Engineering Review
A social capital perspective on meta-knowledge contribution and social computing
Decision Support Systems
The process of reaching agreement in meaning negotiation
Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VII
Policy-based inconsistency management in relational databases
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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There is an increasing need for technology for merging semi-structured information (such as structured reports) from heterogeneous sources. For this, we advocate a knowledge-based approach when the information to be merged incorporates diverse, and potentially complex, conflicts (inconsistencies). In this paper, we contrast the goals of knowledge-based merging with other technologies such as semantic web technologies, information mediators, and database integration systems. We then explain how a system for knowledge-based merging can be constructed for a given application. To support the use of a knowledgebase, we use fusion rules to manage the semi-structured information that is input for merging. Fusion rules are a form of scripting language that defines how structured reports should be merged. The antecedent of a fusion rule is a call to investigate the information in the structured reports and the background knowledge, and the consequent of a fusion rule is a formula specifying an action to be undertaken to form a merged report. Fusion rules are not necessarily a definitive specification of how the input can be merged. They can be used by the user to explore different ways that the input can be merged. However, if the user has sufficient confidence in the output from a set of fusion rules, they can be regarded as a definitive specification for merging, and furthermore, they can then be treated as a form of meta-knowledge that gives the provenance of the merged reports. The integrated usage of fusion rules with a knowledgebase offers a practical and valuable technology for merging conflicting information.