Schema Matching and Mapping

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 matc

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Schema Matching and Mapping

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DCSA

Data-Centric Systems and Applications

Series Editors M.J. Carey S. Ceri Editorial Board P. Bernstein U. Dayal C. Faloutsos J.C. Freytag G. Gardarin W. Jonker V. Krishnamurthy M.-A. Neimat P. Valduriez G. Weikum K.-Y. Whang J. Widom

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5258

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Zohra Bellahsene Erhard Rahm



Angela Bonifati

Editors

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Editors Zohra Bellahsene LIRMM CNRS/Univ. Montpellier 2 Rue Ada 161 34392 Montpellier France [email protected]

Angela Bonifati Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Via P. Bucci 41/C 87036 Rende Italy [email protected]

Erhard Rahm Universit¨at Leipzig Inst. Informatik Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig Germany [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-16517-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-16518-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-16518-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011922131 ACM Computing Classification (1998): H.2, I.2, F.4 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011  This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: KuenkelLopka GmbH Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This book provides an overview about the state-of-the-art solutions and the most recent advances in schema matching and mapping, both recognized as key areas of metadata management. Tasks involving metadata are indeed pervasive in databases and information systems and include schema evolution, schema and ontology integration and matching, XML message mapping, as well as data migration and data exchange. While research on these complex problems has been performed since several decades, we have witnessed significa