The development of the Internet in recent years has made it possible and useful to access
many different information systems anywhere in the world to obtain information. While there …

Smart speakers such as Alexa and Google Home introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) in
millions soon billions of households, making AI an everyday experience. We can now look …

The information fusion field has recently been attracting a lot of interest within the scientific
community, as it provides, through the combination of different sources of heterogeneous …

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 …

Sensors and systems within rapidly expanding smart cities produce citizen-centered big
data which have potential value to support citizen-centered urban governance decision …

Integrated information systems provide users and applications with a unified view of
heterogeneous data sources. To provide a single consistent result for every object …

In a focused, in-depth study, this book explores the mathematical tools used in this
increasingly widespread and important technical field. It includes the theory, methods, and …

Data fusion is the process of merging records from multiple sources which represent the
same real-world object into a single representation. This review of the literature concerns …

Heterogeneous and dirty data is abundant. It is stored under different, often opaque
schemata, it represents identical real-world objects multiple times, causing duplicates, and it …

The data quality improvement of DBpedia has been in the focus of many publications in the
past years with topics covering both knowledge enrichment techniques such as type …