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Decision makers of companies often face the dilemma of whether to release data for knowledge discovery, vis a vis the risk of disclosing proprietary or sensitive information. Whil...
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XML is becoming a prevalent format for data exchange. Many XML documents have complex schemas that are not always known, and can vary widely between information sources and applica...
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