Peter Christen is Senior Lecturer at the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research interests are data mining, with a focus on data matching, and privacy-preserving data sharing and mining. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, and he is the principle developer of the `Febrl' (Freely Extensible Biomedical Record Linkage) open source data cleaning, deduplication and record linkage system.

"The book is very well organized and exceptionally well written. Because of the depth, amount, and quality of the material that is covered, I would expect this book to be one of the standard references in future years." William E. Winkler, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, USA

• Part I Overview.- Introduction.- The Data Matching Process.- Part II Steps of the Data Matching Process.- Data Pre-Processing.- Indexing.- Field and Record Comparison.- Classification.- Evaluation of Matching Quality and Complexity.- Part III Further Topics.- Privacy Aspects of Data Matching.- Further Topics and Research Directions.- Data Matching Systems.

Peter Christen is Senior Lecturer at the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research interests are data mining, with a focus on data matching, and privacy-preserving data sharing and mining. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, and he is the principle developer of the `Febrl' (Freely Extensible Biomedical Record Linkage) open source data cleaning, deduplication and record linkage system.

"The book is very well organized and exceptionally well written. Because of the depth, amount, and quality of the material that is covered, I would expect this book to be one of the standard references in future years." William E. Winkler, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, USA

• Part I Overview.- Introduction.- The Data Matching Process.- Part II Steps of the Data Matching Process.- Data Pre-Processing.- Indexing.- Field and Record Comparison.- Classification.- Evaluation of Matching Quality and Complexity.- Part III Further Topics.- Privacy Aspects of Data Matching.- Further Topics and Research Directions.- Data Matching Systems.