We give semantic characterizations of the expressive power of navigational XPath (also called Core XPath) in terms of first order logic. XPath can be used to specify sets of nodes...
With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute s...
Web Service Technology has been developing rapidly as it provides a flexible application-to-application interaction mechanism. Several ongoing research efforts focus on various as...
In data publishing, the owner delegates the role of satisfying user queries to a third-party publisher. As the publisher may be untrusted or susceptible to attacks, it could produ...
As XML has evolved from a document markup language to a widely-used format for exchange of structured and semistructured data, managing large amounts of XML data has become increa...
Michael Rys, Donald D. Chamberlin, Daniela Floresc...