This article explains challenges that arise when humanitarian organizations want to coordinate their development activities by means of distributed information systems. It focuses...
The health sector uses clinical guidelines as instruments for helping decision making. We are interested in the development of a ubiquitous decision support system (UDSS) for clini...
The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstr...
Although the presence of a schema enables many optimizations for operations on XML documents, recent studies have shown that many XML documents in practice either do not refer to ...
Abstract. This paper deals with updates of XML documents that satisfy a given schema, e.g., a DTD. In this context, when a given update violates the schema, it might be the case th...