Techniques for the Analysis of Conceptual Schemas Silvana Castano silvana.castano@unimi.it 0 3 Valeria De Antonellis valeria.deantonellis@unibs.it 0 2 Maria Grazia Fugini mariagrazia.fugini@polimi.it 0 1 Barbara Pernici barbara.pernici@polimi.it 0 1 20133 Milano , Italy Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics , Information and Bioengineering, Via Ponzio, 34 - Università degli Studi di Brescia , Italy Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Computer Science , Via Celoria, 18 - 20133 Milano , Italy 2022 19 22

ing reference conceptual schemas based on schema clustering, and techniques for schema comparison. The application of these techniques in the context of reuse of conceptual components is briefly presented.

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Since that time, the idea of having a set of techniques for schema and data analysis on large scale has dramatically gained importance and it has been the starting base for the development of a new generation of data analysis and data science techniques dealing with huge datasets of unstructured and textual data for efective data sharing and exploratory analysis on the global scale in the era of big data and cloud computing.

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