Title
Referential Integrity Under Uncertain Data
Abstract
Together with domain and entity integrity, referential integrity embodies the integrity principles of information systems. While relational databases address applications for data that is certain, modern applications require the handling of uncertain data. In particular, the veracity of big data and the complex integration of data from heterogeneous sources leave referential integrity vulnerable. We apply possibility theory to introduce the class of possibilistic inclusion dependencies. We show that our class inherits good computational properties from relational inclusion dependencies. In particular, we showthat the associated implication problem is PSPACE-complete, but fixed-parameter tractable in the input arity. Combined with possibilistic keys and functional dependencies, our framework makes it possible to quantify the degree of trust in entities and relationships.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-79382-1_16
ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (CAISE 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computational complexity, Inclusion dependency, Possibility theory, Reasoning, Referential integrity
Conference
12751
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Link146239.59
Ziheng Wei286.92