Integrate inconsistent and heterogeneous data based on user feedback
International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
ISSN: 1756-378X
Article publication date: 8 June 2015
Abstract
Purpose
Data integration is to combine data residing at different sources and to provide the users with a unified interface of these data. An important issue on data integration is the existence of conflicts among the different data sources. Data sources may conflict with each other at data level, which is defined as data inconsistency. The purpose of this paper is to aim at this problem and propose a solution for data inconsistency in data integration.
Design/methodology/approach
A relational data model extended with data source quality criteria is first defined. Then based on the proposed data model, a data inconsistency solution strategy is provided. To accomplish the strategy, fuzzy multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approach based on data source quality criteria is applied to obtain the results. Finally, users feedbacks strategies are proposed to optimize the result of fuzzy MADM approach as the final data inconsistent solution.
Findings
To evaluate the proposed method, the data obtained from the sensors are extracted. Some experiments are designed and performed to explain the effectiveness of the proposed strategy. The results substantiate that the solution has a better performance than the other methods on correctness, time cost and stability indicators.
Practical implications
Since the inconsistent data collected from the sensors are pervasive, the proposed method can solve this problem and correct the wrong choice to some extent.
Originality/value
In this paper, for the first time the authors study the effect of users feedbacks on integration results aiming at the inconsistent data.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to express the sincere appreciation to the anonymous reviews for the insightful comments, which have greatly aides the authors in improving the quality of the paper.
Citation
Lu, L., Zhang, H. and Gao, X.-Z. (2015), "Integrate inconsistent and heterogeneous data based on user feedback", International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJICC-04-2014-0013
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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