Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
Abstract. The management of user preferences is becoming a fundamental ingredient of modern Web-based data-intensive applications, in which information filtering is crucial to red...
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
Abstract. This paper deals with updates of XML documents that satisfy a given schema, e.g., a DTD. In this context, when a given update violates the schema, it might be the case th...
In this paper, we focus on the problem of integrating heterogeneous XML datasources. We follow a semantic approach to information sharing and integration, and we present a discipl...
Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, G. S. Kuruvilla Ot...