The emergence of the Web has increased interests in XML data. XML query languages such as XQuery and XPath use label paths to traverse the irregularly structured data. Without a s...
A formal model called CoAuto (Cooperative Automaton) is proposed ibe and analyze cooperative processes. A basic CoAuto abstracts the behaviors of a single active entity. It separat...
Globalization and rapid development of Information Technologies have set a new stage for business. Collaborative Commerce has become a strategic necessity to develop high quality ...
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...
In many applications, the underlying data (the web, an XML document, or a relational database) can be seen as a graph. These graphs may be enriched with weights, associated with t...