Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
We present a (non-standard) probabilistic analysis of dynamic data structures whose sizes are considered as dynamic random walks. The basic operations (insertion, deletion, positi...
This paper addresses a major weakness of current technologies for the Semantic Web, namely the lack of a principled means to represent and reason about uncertainty. This not only h...
Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kennet...
Applications have an increasing need to manage semistructured data such as data encoded in XML along with conventional structured data. We extend the structured object database ...
Tirthankar Lahiri, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer Widom