Abstract. Relationships are an essential part of the design of a database because they capture associations between things. Comparing and integrating relationships from heterogeneo...
There is current interest in generalizing Bayesian networks by using dependencies which are more general than probabilistic conditional independence (CI). Contextual dependencies, ...
The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
The continuous and rapid advent in mobile and communications technology opens the way for new research areas and new applications. Moving Object Databases(MODs) are among the emer...
Abstract. The notion of dependency is ubiquitous. This paper approaches this notion from the perspective of digital information preservation. At first, an abstract notion of modul...