Preface; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 A Declarative Approach to Entity Resolution; 3 Transitive Closure of Data Records: Applicationand Computation; 4 Semantic Data Matching: Principlesand Performance; 5 Application of the Near Miss Strategy and EditDistance to Handle Dirty Data; 6 A Parallel General-Purpose Synthetic DataGenerator1; 7 A Grid Operating Environment for CDI; 8 Parallel File Systems; 9 Performance Modeling of Enterprise Grids; 10 Delay Characteristics of Packet SwitchedNetworks; 11 Knowledge Discovery in Textual Databases: AConcept-Association Mining Approach.