Cloud-Scale Entity Resolution: Current State and Open Challenges

Entity resolution (ER) is a process to identify records in information systems, which refer to the same real-world entity. Because in the two recent decades the data volume has grown so large, parallel techniques are called upon to satisfy the ER requirements of high performance and scalability. The development of parallel ER has reached a relatively prosperous stage, and has found its way into several applications. In this work, we first comprehensively survey the state of the art of parallel ER approaches. From the comprehensive overview, we then extract the classification criteria of parallel ER, classify and compare these approaches based on these criteria. Finally, we identify open research questions and challenges and discuss potential solutions and further research potentials in this field

End-to-End Entity Resolution for Big Data: A Survey

One of the most important tasks for improving data quality and the reliability of data analytics results is Entity Resolution (ER). ER aims to identify different descriptions that refer to the same real-world entity, and remains a challenging problem. While previous works have studied specific aspects of ER (and mostly in traditional settings), in this survey, we provide for the first time an end-to-end view of modern ER workflows, and of the novel aspects of entity indexing and matching methods in order to cope with more than one of the Big Data characteristics simultaneously. We present the basic concepts, processing steps and execution strategies that have been proposed by different communities, i.e., database, semantic Web and machine learning, in order to cope with the loose structuredness, extreme diversity, high speed and large scale of entity descriptions used by real-world applications. Finally, we provide a synthetic discussion of the existing approaches, and conclude with a detailed presentation of open research directions

An Approach to Ad hoc Cloud Computing

We consider how underused computing resources within an enterprise may be harnessed to improve utilization and create an elastic computing infrastructure. Most current cloud provision involves a data center model, in which clusters of machines are dedicated to running cloud infrastructure software. We propose an additional model, the ad hoc cloud, in which infrastructure software is distributed over resources harvested from machines already in existence within an enterprise. In contrast to the data center cloud model, resource levels are not established a priori, nor are resources dedicated exclusively to the cloud while in use. A participating machine is not dedicated to the cloud, but has some other primary purpose such as running interactive processes for a particular user. We outline the major implementation challenges and one approach to tackling them

Data Matching and Deduplication Over Big Data Using Hadoop Framework

Entity Resolution is the process of matching records from more than one database that refer to the same entity. In case of a single database the process is called deduplication. This article proposes a method to solve entity resolution and deduplication problem using MapReduce over Hadoop framework. The proposed method includes data preprocessing, comparison and classification tasks indexing by standard blocking method. Our method can operate with one, two or more datasets and works with semi structured or structured data.XIII Workshop Bases de datos y Minería de Datos (WBDMD).Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Data Matching and Deduplication Over Big Data Using Hadoop Framework

Entity Resolution is the process of matching records from more than one database that refer to the same entity. In case of a single database the process is called deduplication. This article proposes a method to solve entity resolution and deduplication problem using MapReduce over Hadoop framework. The proposed method includes data preprocessing, comparison and classification tasks indexing by standard blocking method. Our method can operate with one, two or more datasets and works with semi structured or structured data.XIII Workshop Bases de datos y Minería de Datos (WBDMD).Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI