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A Foolish Consistency: Technical Challenges in Consistency Management

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This paper outlines the area of consistency management and argues for its importance. A motivating example is presented to support the argument. The paper sets out the key technical challenges for research in this area. A broad research agenda is outlined with some signposting of particularly interesting directions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Anthony Finkelstein

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  1. Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Maritime Greenwich University Campus, 30 Park Row, London, SE10 9LS, UK

    Mohamed Ibrahim

  2. University of Linz, FAW, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Josef Küng

  3. Middlesex University, Bounds Green, London, UK

    Norman Revell

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Finkelstein, A. (2000). A Foolish Consistency: Technical Challenges in Consistency Management. In: Ibrahim, M., Küng, J., Revell, N. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44469-6_1

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44469-6_1

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