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Schema Matching and Mapping

  • Comprehensive survey of current and past research on schema matching and mapping
  • Up-to-date source of reference about schema and ontology evolution and schema merging
  • Scholarly chapters enabling a learning experience to both experts and non-experts, written by leading researchers in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Data-Centric Systems and Applications (DCSA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Large-Scale and Knowledge-Driven Schema Matching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
    2. Interactive Techniques to Support Ontology Matching

      • Sean M. Falconer, Natalya F. Noy
      Pages 29-51
    3. Uncertainty in Data Integration and Dataspace Support Platforms

      • Anish Das Sarma, Xin Luna Dong, Alon Y. Halevy
      Pages 75-108
  3. Quality-Driven Schema Mapping and Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-110
    2. Discovery and Correctness of Schema Mapping Transformations

      • Angela Bonifati, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Papotti, Yannis Velegrakis
      Pages 111-147
    3. Recent Advances in Schema and Ontology Evolution

      • Michael Hartung, James Terwilliger, Erhard Rahm
      Pages 149-190
    4. Schema Mapping Evolution Through Composition and Inversion

      • Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wang-Chiew Tan
      Pages 191-222
    5. Mapping-Based Merging of Schemas

      • Rachel Pottinger
      Pages 223-249
  4. Evaluating and Tuning of Matching Tasks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
    2. On Evaluating Schema Matching and Mapping

      • Zohra Bellahsene, Angela Bonifati, Fabien Duchateau, Yannis Velegrakis
      Pages 253-291
    3. Tuning for Schema Matching

      • Zohra Bellahsene, Fabien Duchateau
      Pages 293-316
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 317-320

About this book

Requiring heterogeneous information systems to cooperate and communicate has now become crucial, especially in application areas like e-business, Web-based mash-ups and the life sciences. Such cooperating systems have to automatically and efficiently match, exchange, transform and integrate large data sets from different sources and of different structure in order to enable seamless data exchange and transformation.

The book edited by Bellahsene, Bonifati and Rahm provides an overview of the ways in which the schema and ontology matching and mapping tools have addressed the above requirements and points to the open technical challenges. The contributions from leading experts are structured into three parts: large-scale and knowledge-driven schema matching, quality-driven schema mapping and evolution, and evaluation and tuning of matching tasks. The authors describe the state of the art by discussing the latest achievements such as more effective methods for matching data, mapping transformation verification, adaptation to the context and size of the matching and mapping tasks, mapping-driven schema evolution and merging, and mapping evaluation and tuning. The overall result is a coherent, comprehensive picture of the field.

With this book, the editors introduce graduate students and advanced professionals to this exciting field. For researchers, they provide an up-to-date source of reference about schema and ontology matching, schema and ontology evolution, and schema merging.

Editors and Affiliations

  • LIRMM CNRS/Univ. Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

    Zohra Bellahsene

  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rende, Italy

    Angela Bonifati

  • Inst. Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Erhard Rahm

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Softcover Book USD 119.00
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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