WETSUIT (Web EnTity Search and fUsIon Tool)

WETSUIT is a new powerful open source mashup tool to search and integrate web data from diverse sources and domain-specific entity search engines. It supports adaptive search strategies to query sets of relevant entities with a minimum of communication overhead. Mashups can be composed using a set of high-level operators based on the Java-compatible language Scala. The operator implementation supports a high degree of parallel processing, in particular a streaming of entities between all data transformation operations facilitating a fast presentation of intermediate results.

Demonstration Mashups

• Online Citation Service lets you determine the citation counts of Google Scholar for any author or venue listed at DBLP. References to be analyzed can also be provided by a csv or bib file.
• SimPubFinder lets you determine the citing papers for publications listed in a bib or csv input file.

Source Code and Documentation

• will be published soon

Publications

Endrullis, S.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. WETSUIT: An Efficient Mashup Tool for Searching and Fusing Web Entities Proc. 38th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) / Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 5(12), 2012 (demo) 2012-08

Endrullis, S.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Entity Search Strategies for Mashup Applications Proc. 28th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2012 2012-04

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. CloudFuice: A flexible Cloud-based Data Integration System Proc. of 10th Intl. Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), 2011 2011-06

Endrullis, S.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Evaluation of Query Generators for Entity Search Engines Proc. Intl. Workshop on Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management (USETIM), 2009 2009-08

Thor, Andreas; Aumueller, David; Rahm, Erhard Data Integration Support for Mashups Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), 2007 2007-07