In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Reactivity on the Web is an emerging issue. The capability to automatically react to events (such as updates to Web resources) is essential for both Web services and Semantic Web ...
KDDML (KDD Markup Language) is a middleware language and system designed to support the development of final applications or higher level systems which deploy a mixture of data acc...
The Extensible Markup Language is susceptible to security breaches because it does not incorporate methods to protect the information it encodes. Our work presented in this paper f...
DKAL is a new declarative authorization language for distributed systems. It is based on existential fixed-point logic and is considerably more expressive than existing authoriza...