Entity Identification in Database Integration: An Evidential Reasoning Approach

• Main Authors: LIM, Ee Peng, SRIVASTAVA, Jaideep
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1993
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/910; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1909/viewcontent/EntityIdDBIntegrationEvidentialReApp_1993.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Entity identification is the problem of matching object instances from different databases which correspond to the same real-world entity. In this paper, we present a 2-step entity identification process in which attributes for matching tuples may be missing in certain tuples, and thus need to be de...