Overview of matching systems

Abstract

This chapter is an overview of matching systems which have emerged during the last decade. There have already been some comparisons of matching systems, in particular in [Parent and Spaccapietra, 2000, Rahm and Bernstein, 2001, Do et al., 2002, Kalfoglou and Schorlemmer, 2003b, Noy, 2004a, Doan and Halevy, 2005, Shvaiko and Euzenat, 2005]. Our purpose here is not to compare them in full detail, though we give some comparisons, but rather to show their variety, in order to demonstrate in how many different ways the methods presented in previous chapters have been practically exploited.