Merging databases: Problems and examples
Laurence Cholvy, Serafı́n Moral · International Journal of Intelligent Systems · 2001
This paper focuses on databases merging, which is one particular case of data fusion. Databases merging is the process which consists of integrating, physically or virtually, the data provided by several databases. With examples throughout the paper, we stress the main problems raised by databases merging and we present, not exhaustively, some solutions. The topics receiving deepest study are: cases matching, inconsistency handling and summarizing data. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.