Applications typically have some local understanding of a database schema, a virtual database that may differ significantly from the actual schema of the data where it is stored...
James F. Terwilliger, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David ...
A fundamental problem in information integration is to precisely specify the relationships, called mappings, between schemas. Designing mappings is a time-consuming process. To al...
Abstract. Sharing of structured data in decentralized environments is a challenging problem, especially in the absence of a global schema. Social network structures map network lin...
Verena Kantere, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Timos K. Sell...
In order to formulate a meaningful XML query, a user must have some knowledge of the schema of the XML documents to be queried. The query will succeed only if the schema of the ac...
Cindy X. Chen, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabh...
In this paper, we present a method for simplification of arbitrary 3D meshes that is based on Isotropic Quantization of face-normal vectors. There are three stages. Firstly, a cod...