The problem of data cleaning, which consists of removing inconsistencies and errors from original data sets, is well known in the area of decision support systems and data warehou...
Helena Galhardas, Daniela Florescu, Dennis Shasha,...
Semistructured data is becoming increasingly important for web applications with the development of XML and related technologies. Designing a “good” semistructured database is ...
Xiaoying Wu, Tok Wang Ling, Sin Yeung Lee, Mong-Li...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
One of the main steps towards integration or exchange of data is to design the mappings that describe the (often complex) relationships between the source schemas or formats and t...
Several recent trends have changed the usage and users of schemas beyond those of a database administrator’s tool for describing database contents. Distribution of computing pow...