Finite State History Modeling and Its Precise UML-Based Semantics
This paper discusses the notion of a state history diagram. The concept is directly motivated by a new analysis...
Exploring Alternatives for Representing and Accessing Design Knowledge About Enterprise Integration
Enterprise integration refers to solutions that facilitate meaningful interactions among heterogeneous legacy applications. The scale, complexity and specificity of...
A UML Profile for Modeling Schema Mappings
When trying to obtain semantical interoperability between different information systems, the integration of heterogeneous information sources is a fundamental...
Mining and Re-engineering Transactional Workflows for Reliable Executions
A continuous evolution of business process parameters, constraints and needs, hardly foreseeable initially, requires from the business process management...
Cross: An OWL Wrapper for Reasoning on Relational Databases
One of the challenges of the Semantic Web is to integrate the huge amount of information already available on...
Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structural Constructs
Current graphical notations for XML Schema do not raise the level of abstraction for XML schemata in the same...
VERT: A Semantic Approach for Content Search and Content Extraction in XML Query Processing
Processing a twig pattern query in XML document includes structural search and content search. Most existing algorithms only focus...
A Conceptual Model for Multidimensional Analysis of Documents
Data warehousing and OLAP are mainly used for the analysis of transactional data. Nowadays, with the evolution of Internet,...
Automatic Hidden-Web Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison
The longstanding problem of automatic table interpretation still illudes us. Its solution would not only be an aid to...
A Fine-Grained XML Structural Comparison Approach
As the Web continues to grow and evolve, more and more information is being placed in structurally rich documents,...