Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
XML is becoming a prevalent format for data exchange. Many XML documents have complex schemas that are not always known, and can vary widely between information sources and applica...
Eugene Agichtein, C. T. Howard Ho, Vanja Josifovsk...
XML graphs have shown to be a simple and effective formalism for representing sets of XML documents in program analysis. It has evolved through a six year period with variants tai...
Peer data management systems (PDMS) offer a flexible architecture for decentralized data sharing. In a PDMS, every peer is associated with a schema that represents the peer's...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. Two operators on schema mappings, namely the composition operator and th...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...