Title
Policy-based inconsistency management in relational databases.
Abstract
Though inconsistency management in databases and AI has been studied extensively for years, it does not allow the user to specify how he wants to resolve inconsistencies. In real-world applications, users may want to manage or resolve inconsistencies based not only on the data, but their own knowledge of the risks involved in decision making based on faulty data. Each user should be empowered to use reasonable policies to deal with his data and his mission needs. In this paper, we start by providing an axiomatic definition of inconsistency management policies (IMPs) that puts this power in the hands of users. Any function satisfying these axioms is an IMP. We then define three broad families of IMPs, and derive several results that show (i) how these policies relate to postulates for the revision of belief bases and to recent research in the area of consistent query answering, and (ii) how they interact with standard relational algebra operators. Finally, we present several approaches to efficiently implement an IMP-based framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.ijar.2013.12.004
Int. J. Approx. Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
relational databases,faulty data,inconsistency management,consistent query answering,inconsistency management policy,own knowledge,policy-based inconsistency management,axiomatic definition,mission need,broad family,imp-based framework,belief base
Data science,Relational database,Axiom,Computer science,Knowledge management,Artificial intelligence,Relational algebra,Operator (computer programming),Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
2
0888-613X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.53
77
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Vanina Martinez125926.19
Francesco Parisi220719.15
A. Pugliese311512.90
Gerardo I. Simari436740.41
V. S. Subrahmanian568641053.38