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An MAS Negotiation Support Tool for Schema Matching

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Zoltán Miklós, Hoai Xuan Luong

Database schema matching is the process of establishing correspondences between attributes of schemas for data integration purpose. Though various commercial tools have been developed, their results are inherently uncertain. In practice, to obtain correct ...

2013

Completeness and Ambiguity of Schema Cover

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Zoltán Miklós

Given a schema and a set of concepts, representative of entities in the domain of discourse, schema cover deﬁnes correspondences between concepts and parts of the schema. Schema cover aims at interpreting the schema in terms of concepts and thus, vastly si ...

2013

Predictive approach for schema evolution

Hassina Bounif

In today's companies and organizations, databases are omnipresent. They are the means to represent and store information. Therefore, they must evolve whenever the information architecture (semantic and structure) changes. Databases are subject to evolution ...

EPFL2009

Drivolution: Rethinking the Database Driver Lifecycle

George Candea, Emmanuel Cecchet

The current design of database drivers – a necessary evil for interacting with a DBMS – imposes undue burdens on those who install, upgrade, and manage database systems and their applications. In this paper, we introduce Drivolution, a new architecture for ...

2009

Modeling Route Choice Behavior From Smart-phone GPS data

Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen, Jeffrey Newman

Abstract GPS capable smart phones are emerging survey tools in transportation research field, especially in modeling individuals' mobility patterns. In route choice modeling, path observations need to be generated explicitly for the estimation. It is a cha ...

2009

Modeling Route Choice Behavior From Smart-phone GPS data

Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen, Jeffrey Newman

2009

PicShark: Mitigating Metadata Scarcity Through Large-Scale P2P Collaboration

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura

Abstract With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather than data production is the main bottleneck. Metadata scarcity repres ...

2008

Emergent semantics

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

In the past, the problem of semantic interoperability in information systems was mostly solved by means of centralization, both at a system and at a logical level. This approach has been successful to a certain extent, but offers limited scalability and fl ...

EPFL2007

Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Parisa Haghani, Adriana Budura

GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer -- where data, schemas and mappings are managed -- from a physical layer consisting of a s ...

2007

From Bioinformatic Web Portals to Semantically Integrated Data Grid Networks

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura

We propose a semi-automated method for redeploying bioinformatic databases indexed in a Web portal as a decentralized, semantically integrated and service-oriented Data Grid. We generate peer-to-peer schema mappings leveraging on cross-referenced instances ...

2007

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