Report on the 8th international workshop on quality in databases (QDB10)

The eighth international workshop on Quality in Database was held in Singapore, on September 13th, 2010 and co-located with the 36th Conference on Very Large DataBase (VLDB). The main objective of the workshop was to address the challenge to detect data anomalies and assess, monitor, improve, and maintain the quality of information. The keynote speech, titled 'SOLOMON: Seeking the Truth Via Copying Detection' was delivered by Xin Luna Dong, AT&T. The author presented the SOLOMON tool that supports the discovery of copying relationships between structured data source to improve data integration features. The goal of 'Deriving Effectiveness Measures for Data Quality Rules' by Lei Jiang, Alex Borgida, Daniele Barone, John Mylopoulos is the evaluation of data quality rules. Peter Yeh, and Colin Puri show in 'Discovering Conditional Functional Dependencies to Detect Data Inconsistencies' an approach that exploits conditional functional dependencies for detecting inconsistencies in data and hence improves data quality.