A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
Linked open data (LOD), as provided by a quickly growing number of sources constitutes a wealth of easily accessible information. However, this data is not easy to understand. It i...
Managing time-stamped data is essential to clinical research activities and often requires the use of considerable domain knowledge, which is difficult to support within database ...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi D. Shankar, David B. Parr...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are the natural extension of integrated information systems. Conventionally, a single integrating system manages an integrated schema,...
Ralf Heese, Sven Herschel, Felix Naumann, Armin Ro...
The goal of data fusion is to combine several representations of one real world object into a single, consistent representation, e.g., in data integration. A very popular operator...