Worldwide globalization increases the complexity of problem solving and decision-making, whatever the endeavor is. This calls for a more accurate and complete understanding of unde...
As knowledge becomes the primary focus of work in many industries, virtual communities and groups are emerging as part of new organizational forms. Within these virtual forms, eff...
Recently, the diversified types of companies have been trying to cooperate among them to cope with the dynamic market and thus integration of their DBs with heterogeneous requirem...
In this paper, we study query evaluation on Active XML documents (AXML for short), a new generation of XML documents that has recently gained popularity. AXML documents are XML do...
Action rules introduced in [12] and extended further to e-action rules [21] have been investigated in [22], [13], [20]. They assume that attributes in a database are divided into t...