Abstract. A central task when integrating data from different sources is to detect identical items. For example, price comparison websites have to identify offers for identical p...
Record linkage refers to techniques for identifying records associated with the same real-world entities. Record linkage is not only crucial in integrating multi-source databases ...
Electronic B2B marketplaces bring together many online suppliers and buyers, each of which can potentially use his own format to represent the products in his product catalog. The ...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...