How much should you charge someone to live in your house? Or how much would you pay
to live in someone else's house? Would you pay more or less for a planned vacation or for a …

The manipulation of databases is an integral part of a world which is becoming increasingly
and pervasively information-focused. This book puts forward a suggestion to advocate …

In many scientific and commercial domains, we encounter flexibility objects, ie, objects with
explicit flexibilities in a time and an amount dimension (eg, energy or product amount) …

Similarity joins have been studied as key operations in multiple application domains, eg,
record linkage, data cleaning, multimedia and video applications, and phenomena detection …

Subsequence matching is a basic problem in the field of data stream mining. In recent years,
there has been significant research effort spent on efficiently finding subsequences similar to …

BACKGROUND Information extraction (IE) is a process for analyzing and extracting
structured information from unstructured or semi structured text. Typically, IE systems are …

Many application scenarios can significantly benefit from the identification and processing of
similarities in the data. Even though some work has been done to extend the semantics of …

The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple
application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in the …

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the
traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim …

Similarity Joins are extensively used in multiple application domains and are recognized
among the most useful data processing and analysis operations. They retrieve all data pairs …