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...
Towards Temporal Information in Workflow Systems
A workflow management system (WfMS) is a software system that supports the coordinated execution of different simple activities, assigning...
Preserving and Querying Histories of XML-Published Relational Databases
There is much current interest in publishing and viewing database-resident data as XML documents. In fact, such XML views...
A Lightweight XML Constraint Check and Update Framework
Support for updating XML documents has recently attracted interest. When an XML document is to conform to a given...
Change Discovery in Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Systems
In this paper, we present a novel approach for the change discovery in ontology-based knowledge management systems. It extends...
