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We introduce approximate data exchange, by relaxing classical data exchange problems such as Consistency and Typechecking to their approximate versions based on Property Testing. It provides a natural framework for consistency and safety questions, which first considers approximate solutions and then exact solutions obtained with a Corrector.
We consider a model based on transducers of words and trees, and study ε-Consistency, i.e., the problem of deciding whether a given source instance I is ε-close to a source I′, whose image by a transducer is also ε-close to a target schema. We prove that ε-Consistency has an ε-tester, i.e. can be solved by looking at a constant fraction of the input I. We also show that ε-Typechecking on words can be solved in polynomial time, whereas the exact problem is PSPACE-complete. Moreover, data exchange settings can be composed when they are close.
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de Rougemont, M., Vieilleribière, A. (2006). Approximate Data Exchange. In: Schwentick, T., Suciu, D. (eds) Database Theory – ICDT 2007. ICDT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4353. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11965893_4
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