Uncertain Schema Matching

Avigdor Gal is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial En[1]gineering & Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Tech[1]nology. He received his D.Sc. degree from the Technion in 1995 in the area of temporal active databases. He has published more than 90 papers in journals (e.g., Journal of the ACM ( JACM), ACM Transac[1]tions on Database Systems (TODS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Tech[1]nology (TOIT), and the VLDB Journal), books (Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, Schema Matching and Mapping, and Reasoning in Event-based Distributed Systems) and conferences (ICDE, ER, CoopIS, BPM, DEBS) on the topics of data integration, complex event processing, temporal databases, information systems architectures, and active databases. Avigdor is a member of CoopIS (Cooperative Information Systems) Advisory Board, a member of IFIP WG 2.6, and a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award for 2002-2004.He is a member of the ACM and a senior member of IEEE. Avigdor served as a Program co-Chair of CoopIS and DEBS, and in various roles in ER and CIKM. He served as a program committee member in SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE and others. Avigdor was an Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems.

• Introduction.- Models of Uncertainty.- Modeling Uncertain Schema Matching.- Schema Matcher Ensembles.- Top-K Schema Matchings.- Applications.- Conclusions and Future Work.