In many application scenarios the database is changing quite rapidly. Because the management of such data is rather expensive and cumbersome, many applications like data warehouse...
Given two geographic databases, a fusion algorithm should produce all pairs of corresponding objects (i.e., objects that represent the same real-world entity). Four fusion algorit...
This paper describes the new architecture for supporting the Teradata commercial VLDB on several new operating environments. We start with an overview of the Teradata database sof...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously synthesize knowledge of interest to a given user (target knowledge) by applying inductive database operators to a local or di...
Abstract: We study an instance-based approach for matching hierarchical ontologies, such as product catalogs. The motivation for utilizing instances is that metadata-based match ap...