: Active Database Systems (ADBSs) provides a good infrastructure to define and execute active rules. Nevertheless, this infrastructure offered by ADBSs does not completely satisfy ...
Sidney Viana, Jorge Rady de Almeida Jr., Judith Pa...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of an ongoing research activity concerning the temporal management of normative texts in XML format. In particular, four...
Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Paolo Tiberio, M...
Besides being adopted as the new interchange format for the Internet, XML is finding increasing acceptance as a native data repository language. In order to make XML repositories ...
Design principles for XML schemas that eliminate redundancies and avoid update anomalies have been studied recently. Several normal forms, generalizing those for relational databa...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...