Object matching (also referred to as duplicate identification, record linkage, entity resolution or reference reconciliation) is a crucial task for data integration and data cleaning. The task is to detect multiple representations of the same real-world object. This is a challenging task particularly for objects that are highly heterogeneous and of limited data quality, e.g., regarding complete...

This brief reports a novel low-power 30GHz LNA in 22nm FDSOI CMOS technology. The is based on an active network with inverting amplifier stages, and input output feedforward impedance matching networks. It exhibits peak gain of 11.4 dB, noise figure 5.8 record power consumption 0.52 mW from 0.8 V supply. Owing to its circuit topology, the compact size core area amounts 0.20 × 0.22 mm2.

Names are important in many societies, even in technologically oriented ones which use e.g. ID systems to identify individual people. Names such as surnames are the most important as they are used in many processes, such as identifying of people and genealogical research. On the other hand variation of names can be a major problem for the identification and search for people, e.g. web search or...

In DNA related research, due to various environment conditions, mutations occur very often, where a mutation is defined as a heritable change in the DNA sequence. Therefore, approximate string matching is applied to answer those queries which find mutations. The problem of approximate string matching is that given a user specified parameter, k, we want to find where the substrings, which could ...

Each relationship has its own personality. Almost immediately after a social interaction begins, verbal and nonverbal behaviors become synchronized. Even in asocial contexts, individuals tend to produce utterances that match the grammatical structure of sentences they have recently heard or read. Three projects explore language style matching (LSM) in everyday writing tasks and professional wri...

Entity matching, or record linkage, is the task of identifying records that refer to the same entity. Naive entity matching techniques (i.e., brute-force pairwise comparisons) have quadratic complexity. A typical shortcut to the problem is to employ blocking techniques to reduce the number of comparisons, i.e. to partition the data in several blocks and only compare records within the same bloc...

The fuzzy commitment scheme is a cryptographic primitive that can be used to protect biometric templates. If multiple records extracted from the same biometric characteristic have been intercepted, their correspondence can be examined, i.e., cross-matching, via the decodability attack. As a countermeasure, Kelkboom et al. proposed to apply a public but record-specific permutation to the feature...

The problem of scaling up data integration, such that new sources can be quickly utilized as they are discovered, remains elusive: global schemas for integrated data are difficult to develop and expand, and schema and record matching techniques are limited by the fact that data and metadata are often under-specified and must be disambiguated by data experts. One promising approach is to avoid u...

Medical record linkage is becoming increasingly important as clinical data is distributed across independent sources. To improve linkage accuracy we studied different name comparison methods that establish agreement or disagreement between corresponding names. In addition to exact raw name matching and exact phonetic name matching, we tested three approximate string comparators. The approximate...