Abstract. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provides a powerful and flexible means of encoding and exchanging data. As it turns out, its main advantage as an encoding format (n...
Abiteboul et al. initiated the systematic study of distributed XML documents consisting of several logical parts, possibly located on different machines. The physical distributio...
The paper describes experiences, ideas, and problems that were discovered while developing a digital rights management (DRM) extension to an XML browser. The supported rights desc...
The explosion of the number of web-based information sources has drastically increased the need for intelligent mediation tools to be implemented between the users and these infor...
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...