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IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 21, 2011 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 21, 2011 |
| Award Number: | 1117527 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Frank Olken
IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | August 1, 2011 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2015 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $500,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $500,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA US 92093-0021 (858)534-4896 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA US 92093-0021 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Info Integration & Informatics |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
The RICOLLA project manages inconsistencies in structured databases maintained collaboratively by an online community. RICOLLA remains fully functional in the presence of inconsistencies, enabling "resolve-as-you-go" consistency. RICOLLA allows users to collaboratively resolve certain conflicts while disagreeing on others. Building Ricolla involves the following technical contributions: a) a novel architecture that tolerates inconsistency, allows data query and update, while aiding inconsistency resolution by community members; b) a data model and interface for explaining the inconsistencies to the users; c) a set of resolution actions that allow each user to resolve individual data inconsistencies; d) a resolution policy language for summarizing a set of resolution actions based on high level criteria; and e) a set of algorithms for implementing the system on top of a relational database management system.
The resulting techniques and prototype contribute to the infrastructure for the next generation of online databases. This benefits a variety of online communities who need to collaboratively edit structured data, ranging from the scientific domain to digital government and social networks. RICOLLA's evaluation includes as use cases two scientific communities (biologists and geoscientists) and UCSD students taking database classes. Direct deployment in teaching serves to both improve students' online collaboration and collect their feedback for RICOLLA's evaluation and tuning purposes. Publications, technical reports, software and experimental data resulting from this research are available at the project web site http://db.ucsd.edu/ricolla.
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The RICOLLA project manages inconsistencies in structured databases maintained collaboratively by an online community of users. RICOLLA remains fully functional in the presence of inconsistencies, enabling "resolve-as-you-go" consistency. That is, RICOLLA allows users to collaboratively resolve certain conflicts while disagreeing on others. This is novel functionality with respect to state of the art databases, where all conflicts need to be resolved prior to answering queries correctly, and where conflicts are resolved in the same way for all users, disallowing dissenting opions.
Building Ricolla involves the following technical contributions: a) a novel architecture that tolerates inconsistency, allows data query and update, while aiding inconsistency resolution by community members; b) a data model and interface for explaining the inconsistencies to the users; c) a set of resolution actions that allow each user to resolve individual data inconsistencies; d) a resolution policy language for summarizing a set of resolution actions based on high level criteria; and e) a set of algorithms for implementing the system on top of a relational database management system.
The resulting techniques and prototype contribute to the infrastructure for the next generation of online databases. This benefits a variety of online communities who need to collaboratively edit structured data, ranging from the scientific domain to digital government and social networks. RICOLLA's evaluation includes as use cases two scientific communities (biologists and geoscientists) and UCSD students taking database classes. Direct deployment in teaching serves to both improve students' online collaboration and collect their feedback for RICOLLA's evaluation and tuning purposes. Publications, technical reports, software and experimental data resulting from this research are available at the project web site http://db.ucsd.edu/ricolla.
Last Modified: 12/22/2015
Modified by: Alin B Deutsch
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