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Databases integration, federated databases, multidatabases, databases merging ([3], [1], [2], [17], [5], [12], [14], [10], [4]) are close problems which aim to query several independent databases viewed as a single one.
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Cholvy, L. (2006). Querying Contradictory Databases by Taking into Account Their Reliability and Their Number. In: Bordogna, G., Psaila, G. (eds) Flexible Databases Supporting Imprecision and Uncertainty. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33289-8_6
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