The need for descriptive information, i.e., metadata, about Web resources has been recognized in several application contexts (e.g., digital libraries, portals). The Resource Descr...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
Non-technical users are increasingly adding structures to their data. This gives rise to the need for database design. However, traditional database design is deliberate and heavy...
An inverse of a schema mapping M is intended to "undo" what M does, thus providing a way to perform "reverse" data exchange. In recent years, three different f...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
Metadata are widely used in order to fully exploit information resources available on corporate intranets or the Internet. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilit...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
Web communities involve networks of loosely coupled data sources. Members in those communities should be able to pose queries and gather results from all data sources in the networ...