Streaming data analysis has recently attracted attention in numerous applications including
telephone records, Web documents and click streams. For such analysis, single-pass …

When integrating information from multiple websites, the same data objects can exist in
inconsistent text formats across sites, making it difficult to identify matching objects using …

Abstract Systems and infrastructures are currently being developed to support Web services.
The main idea is to encapsulate an organization's functionality within an appropriate …

Data Quality provides an exposé of research and practice in the data quality field for
technically oriented readers. It is based on the research conducted at the MIT Total Data …

The Context Interchange strategy presents a novel perspective for mediated data access in
which semantic conflicts among heterogeneous systems are not identified a priori, but are …

Workflow management systems (WfMSs) have been used to support a variety of business
processes. As organizations adopt new working models, such as e-commerce, new …

In cooperative information systems, the quality of data exchanged and provided by different
data sources is extremely important. A lack of attention to data quality can imply data of low …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

Existing duplicate elimination methods for data cleaning work on the basis of computing the
degree of similarity between nearby records in a sorted database. High recall can be …

Most of new databases are no more built from scratch, but re-use existing data from several
autonomous data stores. To facilitate application development, the data to be re-used …