With the emergence of XML as the de facto standard to exchange and disseminate information, the problem of regulating access to XML documents has attracted a considerable attentio...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Supporting queries and modifications on XML documents is a challenging task, and several related approaches exist. When implementing query and modification languages efficientl...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Remote service invocation via HTTP and XML promises to become an important component of the Internet infrastructure. Work is ongoing in the W3C XML Protocol Working Group to define...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...