Supporting legacy applications when the database schema evolves represents a long-standing challenge of practical and theoretical importance. Recent work has produced algorithms a...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Alin Deutsch, Carlo Z...
Generating query-answering plans for data integration systems requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a mediated schema, to a query that uses relations that are...
Oliver M. Duschka, Michael R. Genesereth, Alon Y. ...
Digital libraries are more and more available on the web. However, retrieving information in these libraries is not easy because of sources heterogeneity and distribution. Thus, w...
The prevalent use of XML highlights the need for a generic, flexible access-control mechanism for XML documents that supports efficient and secure query access, without revealing ...
- XML based services integrate information resources running on different platforms or technologies to enhance the service efficiency. Thus, the volume of XML traffic on networks i...