Mobile Information Systems – Research Challenges on the Conceptual and Logical Level
This paper discusses new challenges and possible approaches for developing and evolving mobile information systems, with focus on model-based...
VACXENE: A User-Friendly Visual Synthetic XML Generator
Synthetic collections of valid XML documents are useful in many XML applications. However, creating test cases for XML applications...
A Cooperation Model for Personalised and Situation Dependent Services in Mobile Networks
Situation dependent services are services that significantly depend on the user’s context. Considering the individual needs, such services are...
A New Inlining Algorithm for Mapping XML DTDs to Relational Schemas
XML is rapidly emerging on the World Wide Web as a standard for representing and exchanging data. It is...
Sequence Diagrams for Mobility
There are several kinds of UML diagrams for convenient modelling of behaviour, but these diagrams can be hardly used...
From XML DTDs to Entity-Relationship Schemas
The need for managing large repositories of data coming from XML documents is increasing; in fact, XML is emerging...
A Pattern-Based Approach to Mobile Information Systems Conceptual Architecture
As mobile access to information becomes a common trend in most commercial and corporate information systems, new software engineering...
Extracting Relations from XML Documents
XML is becoming a prevalent format for data exchange. Many XML documents have complex schemas that are not always...
Extending XML Schema with Nonmonotonic Inheritance
Nonmonotonic inheritance is a fundamental feature of object-oriented data models. In this paper, we extend XML Schema with nonmonotonic...
Change Management for a Temporal Versioned Object-Oriented Database
In this paper, we propose a schema versioning mechanism to manage the schema evolution in temporal object-oriented databases. The...
