Schema matching is a basic problem in many database application domains, such as data integration, Ebusiness, data warehousing, and semantic query processing. In current implementa...
: Schema mapping is an important approach to solve the problem of data integration. This paper introduces a research prototype called SDE, which is a system for managing and facili...
In the perspective of a sustainable urban planning, it is necessary to investigate cities in a holistic way and to accept surprises in the response of urban environments to a part...
Integrity checking is aimed at efficiently determining whether the state of the information base is consistent after the application of a set of structural events. One possible way...
In this paper, we explore some of the new opportunities for distributed collaborative applications that emerge from the use of XML as a data specification language. We present two...