Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases particularly in the context of distribute...
Biomedical ontologies provide a commonly accepted scheme for the characterization of biological concepts that enable knowledge sharing and integration. Updating and maintaining an ...
We address the fundamental question: what does it mean for data in a database to be of high quality? We motivate our discussion with examples, where traditional views on data quali...
Service granularity generally refers to the size of a service. The fact that services should be large-sized or coarse-grained is often postulated as a fundamental design principle ...
This paper presents a hybrid, extensional and asymmetric matching approach designed to find out semantic relations (equivalence and subsumption) between entities issued from two ...