In a world of wide-scale information sharing, the decentralized coordination has to consolidate a variety of heterogeneity. Shared data are described in different formats, i.e. da...
XML-relational systems with well defined XML and relational schemas are widely used in industry. In the presence of rapidly changing requirements both schemas of such a model need...
: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
XML is widely used for data exchange between relational databases. Generic exchange tools are based on mappings between the elements of both schemas. Despite the benefits of using...
: Semantic similarity between schema elements is greatly influenced by the context in which the elements are defined and compared. This paper emphasizes on the role of context in e...