A data warehouse stores integrated information from multiple distributed data sources. In effect, the warehouse stores materialized views over the source data. The problem of ensu...
In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
The continuous increase of data volumes available from many sources raises new challenges for their effective understanding. Knowledge discovery in large data repositories involv...
In data integration applications, a join matches elements that are common to two data sources. Often, however, elements are represented slightly different in each source, so an app...
Textual patterns have been used effectively to extract information from large text collections. However they rely heavily on textual redundancy in the sense that facts have to be m...