Abstract The growth of Big Data, especially personal data dispersed in multiple data
sources, presents enormous opportunities and insights for businesses to explore and …

Record linkage is the challenging task of deciding which records, coming from disparate
data sources, refer to the same entity. Established back in 1946 by Halbert L. Dunn, the area …

This chapter provides an overview of the data matching process, and describes the five
major steps involved in this process: data pre-processing (cleaning and standardisation) …

The process of identifying which records in two or more databases correspond to the same
entity is an important aspect of data quality activities such as data pre-processing and data …

Sensitive personal data are created in many application domains, and there is now an
increasing demand to share, integrate, and link such data within and across organisations in …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Private record linkage (PRL) is the problem of identifying pairs of records that are similar as
per an input matching rule from databases held by two parties that do not trust one another …

The increasing availability of large administrative databases for research has led to a
dramatic rise in the use of data linkage. The speed and accuracy of linkage have much …

Previous work on DRAM power-mode management focused on hardware-based techniques
and compiler-directed schemes to explicitly transition unused memory modules to low …

The process of record linkage seeks to integrate instances that correspond to the same
entity. Record linkage has traditionally been performed through the comparison of …