“…Therefore, this paper aims to develop an algorithm for name matching, that consider an approximate string-matching algorithm to allow dealing with possible technical or computational errors. Such matching algorithms have been used in several applications such as spelling correction (Park et al, 2020), linking databases (Hand & Christen, 2018), text retrieval (Abdulhayoglu, Thijs & Jeuris, 2016), handwriting recognition (Chowdhury, Bhattacharya & Parui, 2013), computational biology ''DNA'' (Berger, Waterman & Yu, 2020), and name recognition (Delgado et al, 2016), etc. Consequently, in this work, a new softened distance measure is proposed, based on the BI-DIST distance to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the name-matching method.…”