Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as Wikipedia a...
The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
When hosting XML information on relational backends, a mapping has to be established between the schemas of the information source and the target storage repositories. A rich body ...
: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...