QDB/MUD 2008: Auckland, New Zealand

• Foreword.
  
• Program Committees QDB and MUD.
  

Session 1: Record Linkage and data correction

• Hanna Köpcke, Erhard Rahm:
  Training selection for tuning entity matching. 3-12
  
• Yoojin Hong, Tao Yang, Jaewoo Kang, Dongwon Lee:
  Record Linkage as DNA Sequence Alignment Problem. 13-22
  
• Francesco Cusmai, Carola Aiello, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci:
  EARL: an Evolutionary Algorithm for Record Linkage. 23-32
  
• Anthony Cleve, Jonathan Lemaitre, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Christophe Mouchet, Jean Henrard:
  The Role of Implicit Schema Constructs in Data Quality. 33-40
  

Session 2: Management of Uncertain Data

• Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch:
  On APIs for probabilistic databases. 41-56
  
• Anish Das Sarma, Parag Agrawal, Shubha U. Nabar, Jennifer Widom:
  Towards Special-Purpose Indexes and Statistics for Uncertain Data. 57-72
  
• Ting-You Wang, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu:
  Implementing NOT EXISTS Predicates over a Probabilistic Database. 73-86
  
• Yinian Qi, Sarvjeet Singh, Rahul Shah, Sunil Prabhakar:
  Indexing Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Threshold Queries. 87-102
  

Session 3: Quality Assessment

• Laure Berti-Equille:
  Measuring and Constraining Data Quality with Analytic Workflows. 103-112
  
• Carlo Batini, Daniele Barone, Federico Cabitza, Gianluigi Ciocca, Fabrizio Marini, Gabriella Pasi, Raimondo Schettini:
  Toward a Unified Model for Information Quality. 113-122
  
• Nurul Emran, Suzanne M. Embury, Paolo Missier:
  Model-Driven Component Generation for Families of Completeness. 123-132
  
• Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Themis Palpanas, Oleksiy Chayka:
  Managing Data Quality in Business Intelligence Applications. 133-143