Querying and Integrating Ontologies Viewed as Conceptual Schemas
Real-world ontologies have associated data sets. In order to exploit ontologies as a means to provide semantics to the...
An Interpolated Volume Model for Databases
In this paper we present a volume data model amenable to querying volumes in databases. Unlike most existing volume...
Integrity Constraints Definition in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages
We propose two new methods for the definition of integrity constraints in object-oriented conceptual modeling languages. The first method...
Deriving Use Cases from Business Process Models
Use cases are intended to capture the functional requirements of an information system. The problem of identifying use cases...
Order-Sensitive View Maintenance of Materialized XQuery Views
In this paper we present the first approach for incremental order-preserving maintenance of XQuery views. Our technique is based...
Automatic Generation of XQuery View Definitions from ORA-SS Views
Many Internet-based applications have adopted XML as the standard data exchange format. These XML data are typically stored in...
Automaton Meets Query Algebra: Towards a Unified Model for XQuery Evaluation over XML Data...
In this work, we address the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions over continuous XML data streams, which is essential...
Querying Heterogeneous XML Sources through a Conceptual Schema
XML is a widespread W3C standard used by several kinds of applications for data representation and exchange over the...
Analysis of Web Services Composition Languages: The Case of BPEL4WS
Web services composition is an emerging paradigm for application integration within and across organizational boundaries. A landscape of languages...
Enterprise Information Integration – XML to the Rescue!
The database field has been struggling with the data integration problem since the early 1980’s. We’ve named and renamed...