Conflicts to Harmony: A Framework for Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery

• Published in: IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering Vol. 28; no. 8; pp. 1986 - 1999
• Main Authors: Li, Yaliang, Li, Qi, Gao, Jing, Su, Lu, Zhao, Bo, Fan, Wei, Han, Jiawei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Climatology; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Conflict resolution; Data fusion; Data models; Descriptions; Deviation; Estimation; heterogeneous data; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Meteorology; Optimization; Product development; Raw materials; Reliability; truth discovery; Weather

In many applications, one can obtain descriptions about the same objects or events from a variety of sources. As a result, this will inevitably lead to data or information conflicts. One important problem is to identify the true information (i.e., the truths) among conflicting sources of data. It is...