In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
Abstract. While XQuery is becoming a standard, the W3C is currently discussing the features of an update language for XML, and its requirements. Therefore, time is ripe for designi...
In the last decades several tools and environments defined and introduced languages for querying, navigating sforming abstract syntax trees. These environments were meant to supp...
Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ettore M...
A Data Warehouse (DW) is a data repository that integrates data from multiple sources and organizes the data according to a set of data structures called dimensions. Each dimension...
It is a fact that many XML query languages lack support for update operations. Those that have minimal support do not concern with preserving documents' constraints, and cons...