Heterogeneous and dirty data is abundant. It is stored under different, often opaque schemata, it represents identical real-world objects multiple times, causing duplicates, and ...
Alexander Bilke, Jens Bleiholder, Christoph Bö...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
Searching and comparing information from semi-structured repositories is an important, but cognitively complex activity for internet users. The typical web interface displays a li...
Maria-Elena Hernandez, Sean M. Falconer, Margaret-...
The Web allows users to share their work very effectively leading to the rapid re-use and remixing of content on the Web including text, images, and videos. Scientific research d...
State of the art, real-time, rate-adaptive, multimedia applications adjust their transmission rate to match the available network capacity. Unfortunately, this source-based rate-a...