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A Database System for Absorbing Conflicting and Uncertain Information from Multiple Correspondents

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This paper discusses a database system which absorbs assertions about the data from a community of correspondents capturing also the uncertainty of the assertion and taking account of the potential unreliability of the correspondent. The paper describes a system compromising the capture of such assertions, the ability to impose an authorised version of a value, the maintenance of a reliability measure for each correspondent and a querying system which returns the most likely values.

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Cooper, R., Devenny, L. (2009). A Database System for Absorbing Conflicting and Uncertain Information from Multiple Correspondents. In: Sexton, A.P. (eds) Dataspace: The Final Frontier. BNCOD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02843-4_21

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