The integration of data from different sources often leads to the adoption of schemata that entail a loss of information in respect of one or more of the data sets being combined....
Background: Bacterial typing schemes based on the sequences of genes encoding surface antigens require databases that provide a uniform, curated, and widely accepted nomenclature ...
Coordinated data structures are sets of (perhaps unbounded) data structures where the nodes of each structure may share types with the corresponding nodes of the other structures....
Let S be a set system of convex sets in Rd . Helly’s theorem states that if all sets in S have empty intersection, then there is a subset S′ ⊂ S of size d+1 which also has e...
We address a problem of updating XML documents having their XML schema described by a Document Type Definition (DTD) without breaking their validity. We present a way how to expre...