The need for incremental constraint maintenance within collections of semi-structured documents has been ever increasing in the last years due to the widespread diffusion of XML. T...
Global semantic integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple databases. In this paper, we take the initial steps towards representing global se...
The need of formal verification is a problem that involves all the fields in which sensible data are managed. In this context the verification of data streams became a fundamental...
The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. We study the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, whe...
Martens et al. defined a pattern-based specification language equivalent in expressive power to the widely adopted XML Schema definitions (XSDs). This language consists of rules...