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In this chapter, we make the reader acquainted with the problem of extracting reliable information from databases violating a given set of integrity constraints. After the presentation of the main issues related to repairing and querying inconsistent databases, we introduce the specific problem of repairing and querying numerical databases violating a particular class of integrity constraints (called aggregate constraints), whose investigation will be the main topic of the following chapters. Finally, we summarize the related work in the literature dealing with the problem of extracting reliable information from inconsistent databases, and provide a description of the organization of the whole book.
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Flesca, S., Furfaro, F., Parisi, F. (2011). Introduction. In: Repairing and Querying Databases under Aggregate Constraints. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1641-8_1
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