02312nas a2200217   4500008004100000245007500041210006900116260000900185300001400194490000600208520161300214653002401827653002501851653001801876653002001894100001701914700001601931700001501947700001501962856011701977       2010                        eng d00aAn approach for matching schemas of heterogeneous relational databases0 aapproach for matching schemas of heterogeneous relational databa  c2010  a260 - 2690 v83 aSchema matching is a basic problem in many database application domains, such as data integration. The problem of schema matching can be formulated as follows, "given two schemas, Si and Sj, find the most plausible correspondences between the elements of Si and S j, exploiting all available information, such as the schemas, instance data, and auxiliary sources" [24]. Given the rapidly increasing number of data sources to integrate and due to database heterogeneities, manually identifying schema matches is a tedious, time consuming, error-prone, and therefore expensive process. As systems become able to handle more complex databases and applications, their schemas become large, further increasing the number of matches to be performed. Thus, automating this process, which attempts to achieve faster and less labor-intensive, has been one of the main tasks in data integration. However, it is not possible to determine fully automatically the different correspondences between schemas, primarily because of the differing and often not explicated or documented semantics of the schemas. Several solutions in solving the issues of schema matching have been proposed. Nevertheless, these solutions are still limited, as they do not explore most of the available information related to schemas and thus affect the result of integration. This paper presents an approach for matching schemas of heterogeneous relational databases that utilizes most of the information related to schemas, which indirectly explores the implicit semantics of the schemas, that further improves the results of the integration.10aBiomedical database10aDatabase integration10aHeterogeneous10aSchema matching1 aKarasneh, Y.1 aIbrahim, H.1 aOthman, M.1 aYaakob, R.  uhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960671688&partnerID=40&md5=6ff8c1cb0997d2a66db189af36cbfb1c