Probabilistic Web Data Management

Probabilistic-Logical Web Data Integration

The integration of both distributed schemas and data repositories is a major challenge in data and knowledge management applications. Instances of this problem range from mapping database schemas to object reconciliation in the linked open data cloud. We present a novel approach to several important data integration problems that combines logical and probabilistic reasoning. We first provide a ...

Probabilistic RFID Data Management

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is increasingly being used to improve various industrial processes, such as supply-chain management. Successes of this technology in industrial settings are leading many to consider other uses of RFID, including user-oriented public deployments. However, the noisy, low-level data produced by RFID readers is almost impossible to use or comprehend ...

Web Data Management Web Search

For personal use only, not for distribution. 6 Further Reading 35 With a constantly increasing size of dozens of billions of freely accessible documents, one of the major issues raised by the World Wide Web is that of searching in an effective and efficient way through these documents to find those that best suit a user's need. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the techniques that are ...

Web Data Management Data Integration

Web Data Management