Amihai Motro: Publications by Subject

Uncertainty, imprecision, incompleteness and inconsistency in databasess


  1. Imprecise queries — see Vague queries, neighborhood queries
  2. Inconsistencies in multi-databases — see Resolution of multi-database inconsistencies
  3. Modeling imperfect data with soundness and completeness — see Measuring data quality with soundness and completeness
  4. Surveys of data imperfections in database systems
    1. A. Motro. Accommodating Imprecision in Database Systems: Issues and Solutions. ACM SIGMOD Record (Special issue on directions for future DBMS research and development), Vol. 19, No. 4, December 1990, pp. 69–74.
      Appeared simultaneously in IEEE Data Engineering (Special issue on directions for future DBMS research and development), Vol.13, No.4, December 1990, pp. 29–34.
      Included in Data Engineering, Volume 9 (W. Kim, D.L. Lee, Z.M. Ozsoyoglu and D. Reiner, Editors), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991, pp. 213–218.
      Included in Multidatabase Systems: An Advanced Solution to Global Information Sharing (A.R. Hurson, M.W. Bright and S. Pakzad, Editors), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993, pp. 381–386.
    2. A. Motro. Imprecision and Incompleteness in Relational Databases: Survey. Information and Software Technology, Vol. 32, No. 9, November 1990, pp. 579–588.
    3. A. Motro. Introduction. In Uncertainty Management in Information Systems: From Needs to Solutions (A. Motro and P. Smets, Editors). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, Ch. 1, pp. 1–8.
    4. A. Motro. Sources of Uncertainty, Imprecision and Inconsistency in Information Systems. In Uncertainty Management in Information Systems: From Needs to Solutions (A. Motro and P. Smets, Editors). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, Ch. 2, pp. 9–34.
      Earlier version: A. Motro. Sources of Uncertainty in Information Systems. In Proceedings of UMIS 92, Workshop on Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, Puerto de Andraitx (Mallorca), Spain, September 1992, pp. 1–18.
    5. A. Motro. Management of Uncertainty in Database Systems. In Modern Database Systems: the Object Model, Interoperability and Beyond (W. Kim, Editor), Addison-Wesley/ACM Press, 1994, pp. 457–476.
    6. A. Motro. Imprecision and Uncertainty in Database Systems. In Fuzziness in Database Management Systems (P. Bosc and J. Kacprzyk, Editors), Physica-Verlag, 1995, pp. 3–22.