Validating multi-column schema matchings by type

• Main Authors: DAI, Bing Tian, KOUDAS, Nick, SRIVASTAVA, Divesh, TUNG, Anthony K.H., VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Suresh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4167; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5170/viewcontent/Multi_column_schema_matchingICDE08.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Validation of multi-column schema matchings is essential for successful database integration. This task is especially difficult when the databases to be integrated contain little overlapping data, as is often the case in practice (e.g., customer bases of different companies). Based on the intuition...