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Analyzing and revising data integration schemas to improve their matchability

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Analyzing and revising data integration schemas to improve their matchability
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of semantic matches between the mediated schema and the data-source schemas. Finding such matches is well known to be difficult. Hence much work has focused on developing semi-automatic techniques to efficiently find the matches. In this paper we consider the complementary problem of improving the mediated schema, to make finding such matches easier. Specifically, a mediated schema S will typically be matched with many source schemas. Thus, can the developer of S analyze and revise S in a way that preserves S's semantics, and yet makes it easier to match with in the future? In this paper we provide an affirmative answer to the above question, and outline a promising solution direction, called mSeer. Given a mediated schema S and a matching tool M, mSeer first computes a matchability score that quantifies how ...
Xiaoyong Chai, Mayssam Sayyadian, AnHai Doan, Arno
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Updated 28 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2008
Where PVLDB
Authors Xiaoyong Chai, Mayssam Sayyadian, AnHai Doan, Arnon Rosenthal, Len Seligman
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