We consider the Entity Resolution (ER) problem (also known as deduplication, or merge-purge), in which records determined to represent the same real-world entity are successively ...
David Menestrina, Omar Benjelloun, Hector Garcia-M...
RFID holds the promise of real-time identifying, locating, tracking and monitoring physical objects without line of sight, and can be used for a wide range of pervasive computing ...
The semantic web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. Ontologies, a cornerstone of the semantic web,...
Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool, R...
We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...
Database-like query processing over a network of sensors has become an attractive paradigm for building sensor applications. A sensor query is characterized by data streams among ...
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Alexand...
In this paper we examine the dissemination of availability reports about resources in mobile peer-topeer networks, where vehicles, pedestrian or sensors communicate with each othe...
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of the ESTEST system, which combines the data integration approach with techniques from Information Extraction in order to allow information ...
This paper investigates the level of agreement in applying metadata and highlights results from the analysis of agreement between and within user communities. Problems in applying...