Putting Feedback into Incremental Schema Matching

The goal of schema matching is to identify correspondences between the elements of two schemas. Current state-of-the-art schema matching systems calculate the candidate matching result in one time and display the results in a single-shot for user. However, they do not take user's feedback into consideration. In this paper, first, a similarity and dissimilarity measurement between two schemas is provided. Then, we propose an algorithm that displays the schema layout in an easily understood style for the user. Third, we propose an interactive and incremental matching model taking the user's feedback into account and provide a confirmation plan in real time to decrease the dissimilarity as quickly as possible. Finally, we integrate all state-in-the-art schema matching algorithms into a general interactive and incremental schema matching framework.