The difficulty inherent in schema matching has led to the development of several generic match algorithms. This paper describes how we adapted general approaches to the specific t...
Part of the process of data integration is determining which sets of identifiers refer to the same real-world entities. In integrating databases found on the Web or obtained by us...
This paper describes the design and implementation of an XML storage manager for fast and interactive XPath expressions evaluation. This storage manager has two main parts: the XML...
As more and more information becomes accessible via on-line databases, more public services can be provided and more complex queries involving several registers become feasible as...
: Access control is an important aspect in guaranteeing data privacy within XML data sources which are accessed by users with different access rights. The goal of predicative acces...