On the Automatic Extraction of Data from the Hidden Web
An increasing amount of Web data is accessible only by filling out HTML forms to query an underlying data...
Formalising Feasibility and Correctness of Distributed Business Processes
A distributed business process organizes activities by several enterprises to fulfill a given business goal. The purpose of this...
MIDAS/BD: A Methodological Framework for Web Database Design
One of the most important trends in Information System research is concerning Web application development. Generally, Web Information Systems...
Modeling Products for Versatile E-commerce Platforms — Essential Requirements and Generic Design Alternatives
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) covers a wide range of business transactions. Usually, a transactions includes products, i.e. goods or services....
Translating XQuery into XSLT
The WWW Consortium (W3C) has recently presented a working draft of XQuery, which is intended to serve as standardized...
Seamless Personalization of E-commerce Applications
In this paper we present an original approach for personalizing complex Web applications, in particular e-commerce applications. This approach...
Web Site Evaluation: Methodology and Case Study
This paper presents a methodology for the assessment of Web site quality with a particular emphasis public sector Web...
Automatic Web Information Extraction in the RoadRunner System
This paper presents Road Runner, a research project that aims at developing solutions for automatically extracting data from large...
Querying Relational Databases without Explicit Joins
Despite its benefits and wide-spread acceptance, SQL is not a perfect query language. Although graphical tools for query...
NF-SS: A Normal Form for Semistructured Schema
Semistructured data is becoming increasingly important for web applications with the development of XML and related technologies. Designing a...
