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Model Management

Model Management is a powerful approach to generic metadata management that manipulates  models and mappings between models using high-level operators. It aims at simplifying the development of metadata-intensive applications, such as data integration, software engineering, website management, or network modeling applications. Such applications manipulate a variety of 

  • models (database schemas, XML schemas, UML / ER)diagrams, ontologies, etc.) and
  • mappings between models (SQL view definitions, XSLT transformations,   XML-to-relational shredding specifications, ER-to-SQL DDL mappings, etc.).  

Model Management is a powerful approach to generic metadata management not limited to a specific language or application domain.  Models and mappings are manipulated using high-level algebraic operators, such as Match, Merge, or Compose. These operators are applied to models and mappings as a whole rather than to their individual building blocks. This approach, which was proposed by Phil Bernstein et al., promises to make the programming of metadata-intensive applications substantially easier.

Some of our key contributions are:

  • Study of scenarios related to data warehousing to demonstrate the usefulness of model management (ER 2000)
  • Development of the first prototype implementation of a complete programming environment for model- management, called Rondo, and its use to solve several realistic metadata problems (SIGMOD 2003). An executable demo of Rondo is available for download. 

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Ayala, Daniel; Hernández, Irma; Ruiz, David; Rahm, Erhard
LEAPME: Learning-based Property Matching with Embeddings
Arxiv 2010.01951
2020-10
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Rahm, Erhard
The Case for Holistic Data Integration
Proc. ADBIS, Invited keynote paper, Springer LNCS 9809
2016-09


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SemRep: A Repository for Semantic Mapping
BTW 2015
2015-03
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Raunich, Salvatore; Rahm, Erhard
Target-driven Merging of Taxonomies with ATOM
Information Systems, Vol. 42, June 2014
2014-06


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publication iconArnold, Patrick; Rahm, Erhard
Semantic Enrichment of Ontology Mappings: A Linguistic-based Approach
Proc. 17th ADBIS Conference. LNCS 8133, pp. 42-55
2013-09


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publication iconArnold, Patrick
Semantic Enrichment of Ontology Mappings: Detecting Relation Types and Complex Correspondences
25. GI-Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken
2013
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publication iconMassmann, Sabine; Raunich, Salvatore; Aumueller, David; Arnold, Patrick; Rahm, Erhard
Evolution of the COMA Match System
OM-2011 (The Sixth International Workshop on Ontology Matching, October 24th, 2011, Bonn, Germany)
2011-10
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Algergawy, A.; Massmann, S.; Rahm, E.
A Clustering-based Approach For Large-scale Ontology Matching
Proc. ADBIS Conf. 2011, LNCS 6909, pp. 415-428
2011-09
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Bernstein, P.A.; Madhavan, J.; Rahm, E.
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PVLDB, 2011 (VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award Paper)
2011-08
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Peukert, E.; Eberius, J.; Rahm, E.
AMC – A Framework for Modelling and Comparing Matching Systems as Matching Processes
Proc. Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (Demo paper), 2011
2011-04
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Raunich, Salvatore; Rahm, Erhard
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Proc. Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (Demo paper), 2011
2011-04
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Restricting the Overlap of Top-N Sets in Schema Matching
Proc. EDBT workhop on New Trends in Similarity Search (NTSS 2011)
2011-03

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Bellahsene, Z.; Bonifati, A.; Rahm, E. (eds.)
Schema Matching and Mapping
Springer-Verlag, Data-Centric Systems and Applications
2011-02
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Hartung, M.; Terwilliger, J.; Rahm, E.
Recent advances in schema and ontology evolution
Schema Matching and Mapping, Springer-Verlag
2011-02
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Rahm, E.
Towards large-scale schema and ontology matching
Schema Matching and Mapping, Springer-Verlag
2011-02


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publication icon Algergawy, A; Nayak, R; Saake, G.
Element similarity measures in XML schema matching
Information Sciences, Volume 180, Issue 24, 15 Dec. 2010, Pages 4975-4998
2010-12
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publication iconPeukert, E; Massmann, Sabine; König, Kathleen
Comparing Similarity Combination Methods for Schema Matching
GI-Workshop - Informationsintegration in Service-Architekturen
2010-09-30
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publication iconAlgergawy, A.; Nayak, R.; Siegmund, N.; Koppen, V.; Saake, G.
Combining Schema and Level-Based Matching for Web Service Discovery
10th International Conference of Web Engineering (ICWE 2010)
2010-07
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Kirsten, T.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E.
Instance-based matching of large life science ontologies
Proc. of 4th Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), 2007
2007-06
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Do, H.-H.; Rahm, E.
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Information Systems, Volume 32, Issue 6, September 2007, Pages 857-885
2007

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Do, Hai Hong
Schema Matching and Mapping-based Data Integration
Dissertation. Veröffentlich durch Verlag Dr. Müller (VDM), ISBN 3-86550-997-5,
2006
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Rahm, Erhard; Bernstein, Philip A.
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Sigmod Record, Dec. 2006
2006
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Aumueller, D.; Do, H.H.; Massmann, S.; Rahm, E.
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SIGMOD Conference
2005-06
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Melnik, S.; Bernstein P.A.; Halevy, A.; Rahm, E.
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Proc. SIGMOD 2005, Baltimore, June 2005
2005-06

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Melnik, S.
Generic Model Management: Concepts and Algorithms
Springer LNCS 2967
2004
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Do, H.H.; Melnik, S.; Rahm, E.
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Proc. Workshop Web and Databases, LNCS 2593, 2003
2003

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publication iconMelnik, S.; Rahm, E.; Bernstein, P.A.
Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management,
Proc. ACM SIGMOD 2003
2003
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Melnik, S.; Rahm, E.; Bernstein, P.A.
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Journal on Web Semantics, 2003
2003
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Comparison of Schema Matching Evaluations.
Proc. GI-Workshop “Web and Databases”, Erfurt, Oct. 2002
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Do, H.H.; Rahm, E.
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Proc. 28th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Hongkong, Aug. 2002
2002

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Doctoral Poster, VLDB conf. 2002, Hongkong, Aug. 2002
2002
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Melnik, S.; Garcia-Molina, H.; Rahm, E.
Similarity Flooding: A Versatile Graph Matching Algorithm and its Application to Schema Matching
Proc. 18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Jose, 2002
2002
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Madhavan, J.; Bernstein, P.A.; Rahm, E.
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Proc. 27th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Rome, Italy, Sep. 2001
2001
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Rahm, E.; Bernstein, P.A.
A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Schema Matching
VLDB Journal 10 (4)
2001
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Rahm, E.; Bernstein, P.A.
On Matching Schemas Automatically
Techn. Report 1/2001. Dept. of Comp. Science, Univ. of Leipzig, Feb. 2001
2001
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Bernstein, P.A.; Rahm, E.
Data Warehouse Scenarios for Model Management
Proc. 19th Int. Conf. on Entity-Relationship Modelling, Oct. 2000, LNCS, Springer
2000
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Rahm, E.; Do, H.H.
Data Cleaning: Problems and Current Approaches
IEEE Techn. Bulletin on Data Engineering, Dec. 2000
2000
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Müller, R.; Stöhr, T.; Rahm, E.
An Integrative and Uniform Model for Metadata Management in Data Warehousing Environments.
Proceedings Workshop on Design and Management of Data Warehouses (DMDW’99), Heidelberg, June 1999
1999

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Bernstein, P.A., Is Generic Data Management Feasible? Panel discussion, Proc. VLDB 2000, pp. 660-662