A critical point for developing successful information systems for distributed organisations is the need for integrating heterogeneous technologies and tools. This paper reports a...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia,...
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...
The large amount of information that is spread over the Internet is an important resource for all people but also introduces some issues that must be faced. The dynamism and the un...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Giacomo Cabri, Francesco Guerra...
A computer network is said to provide hop integrity iff when any router p in the network receives a message m supposedly from an adjacent router q, then p can check that m was ind...
Mohamed G. Gouda, E. N. Elnozahy, Chin-Tser Huang,...
During the process of updating a database, two interrelated problems could arise. On one hand, when an update is applied to the database, integrity constraints could become violat...