Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descript...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
Schema matching is a critical problem for integrating heterogeneous information sources. Traditionally, the problem of matching multiple schemas has essentially relied on finding ...
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMSs) have been introduced as a solution to the problem of large-scale sharing of semantically rich data. A PDMS consists of semantic peers connecte...
Protection of one's intellectual property is a topic with important technological and legal facets. The significance of this issue is amplified nowadays due to the ease of da...