The INFOMIX System for Advanced Integration of Incomplete and Inconsistent Data

Nicola Leone, Gianluigi Greco, Giovambattista Ianni, Vincenzino Lio, Giorgio Terracina, Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Michael Fink, Georg Gottlob, Riccardo Rosati, Domenico Lembo, Marco Ruzzi, Edyta Kalka, Bartosz Nowicki, Witold Staniszkis.
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Italian Symposium on Database Systems (SEBD 2005), 2005.

 

Abstract:

The paper presents INFOMIX, a novel system which supports powerful information integration, utilizing advanced reasoning capabilities. While INFOMIX is based on solid theoretical foundations, it is a user-friendly system, endowed with graphical user interfaces for the average database user and administrator, respectively. The main features of the INFOMIX system are: (i) a comprehensive information model, through which the knowledge about the integration domain can be declaratively specified, (ii) capability of dealing with data that may result incomplete and/or inconsistent with respect to global ICs, (iii) advanced information integration algorithms, reducing query answering to cautious reasoning on (head cycle free) disjunctive datalog programs, allowing to effectively compute the query results precisely, (iv) sophisticated optimization techniques guaranteeing the effectiveness of query evaluation in INFOMIX, (v) a rich data acquisition and transformation framework for accessing heterogeneous data in many formats including relational, XML, and HTML data.

Bibtex entry:

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@Inproceedings{LGILT05b,
author = "Nicola Leone and Gianluigi Greco and Giovambattista Ianni and Vincenzino Lio and Giorgio Terracina and Thomas Eiter and Wolfgang Faber and Michael Fink and Georg Gottlob and Riccardo Rosati and Domenico Lembo and Marco Ruzzi and Edyta Kalka and Bartosz Nowicki and Witold Staniszkis",
title = "The INFOMIX System for Advanced Integration of Incomplete and Inconsistent Data",
booktitle = SEBD-05,
year = 2005,
}