The development of the Internet in recent years has made it possible and useful to access
many different information systems anywhere in the world to obtain information. While there …

Cleansing data from impurities is an integral part of data processing and maintenance. This
has lead to the development of a broad range of methods intending to enhance the accuracy …

Data quality tools aim at detecting and correcting data problems that affect the accuracy and
efficiency of data analysis applications. We propose a classification of the most relevant …

Fusionplex is a system for integrating multiple heterogeneous and autonomous information
sources that uses data fusion to resolve factual inconsistencies among the individual …

In a context of Data Integration Systems (DIS) providing access to large amounts of data
extracted and integrated from autonomous data sources, users are highly concerned about …

Dealing with discrepancies in data is still a big challenge in data integration systems. The
problem occurs both during eliminating duplicates from semantic overlapping sources as …

Abstract Computational Biology or Bioinformatics has been defined as the application of
mathematical and Computer Science methods to solving problems in Molecular Biology that …

In today's integrating information systems data fusion, ie, the merging of multiple tuples
about the same real-world object into a single tuple, is left to ETL tools and other specialized …

Integration and analysis of data from different sources have to deal with several problems
resulting from potential heterogeneities. The activities addressing these problems are called …

New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require
powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. As outlined in [1], the general …