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

Health technology assessment (HTA) is the systematic evaluation of the properties and
impacts of health technologies and interventions. In this article, we presented a discussion of …

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 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 …

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 …

Finding and matching personal names is at the core of an increasing number of
applications: from text and Web mining, search engines, to information extraction …

Matching records that refer to the same entity across data-bases is becoming an
increasingly important part of many data mining projects, as often data from multiple sources …

Deduplicating one data set or linking several data sets are increasingly important tasks in
the data preparation steps of many data mining projects. The aim of such linkages is to …

Background Record linkage is the process of identifying and combining records about the
same individual from two or more different datasets. While there are many open source and …

Cloud infrastructures enable the efficient parallel execution of data-intensive tasks such as
entity resolution on large datasets. We investigate challenges and possible solutions of …