The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
Abstract—We investigate some basic questions about the interaction of regular and rational relations on words. The primary motivation comes from the study of logics for querying ...
Complex relationships, frequently referred to as semantic associations, are the essence of the Semantic Web. Query and retrieval of semantic associations has been an important task...
Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, an...
Distributed Hashtables (DHTs) provide a scalable method of associating file-hashes with a particular location in a distributed network environment. Modifying DHTs directly to suppo...