摘要 |
Systems and methods are provided for automating navigation between dynamic data that has dissimilar structures, such as navigating between relational tables that have only a subset of their columns in common. That is, given a source dataset and source element collection, we want to navigate to an element collection in one or more target datasets. The automated navigation system includes an inter-dataset navigation engine that determines the best matching element collection within a plurality of target datasets. One method employed includes finding a descriptor of the target element collection in a target dataset. Then, a distance metric is computed between each source and target element. Lastly, a list that contains an entry for each target dataset along with its associated target element collection and distance value is output for use in a particular analysis task.
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