• ISSN: 2010-023X (Print)
    • Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Trade, Economics and Financ.
    • Frequency: Quaterly
    • DOI: 10.18178/IJTEF
    • Editor-in-Chief: Prof.Tung-Zong (Donald) Chang
    • Managing Editor: Ms. Shira. W. Lu
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IJTEF 2011 Vol.2(1): 78-86 ISSN: 2010-023X
DOI: 10.7763/IJTEF.2011.V2.82

An Optimization Approach for Semantic-based XML Schema Matching

Jaewook Kim, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic, and Junho Shin

Abstract—We propose a novel solution for semantic-based XML schema matching, taking a mathematical programming approach. This method identifies the globally optimal solution for the problem of matching leaf nodes between two XML schema trees by reducing the tree-to-tree matching problem to simpler problems of path-to-path, node-to-node, and word-to-word matching. We formulate these matching problems as maximum-weighted bipartite graph matching problems with different constraints, which are solved by different mathematical programming techniques, including integer programming and dynamic programming. Solutions to simpler problems provide weights for the next stage until the optimal tree-to-tree matching solution is obtained. The effectiveness of this approach has been verified and demonstrated by computer experiments.

Index Terms—E-business, XML schema matching, maximum-weighted bipartite graph, semantic similarity, mathematical programming.

Jaewook Kim is with the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA (e-mail: jaewook2@umbc.edu).
Yun Peng is with the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA (e-mail: ypeng@umbc.edu).
Nenad Ivezic is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA (e-mail: nivezic@nist.gov).
Junho Shin is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA (e-mail: junho.shin@nist.gov).

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Cite:Jaewook Kim, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic, and Junho Shin, "An Optimization Approach for Semantic-based XML Schema Matching," International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance vol.2, no.1, pp. 78-86, 2011.

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