The paper discusses the issue of views in the Web context. We introduce a set of languages for managing and restructuring data coming from the World Wide Web. We present a specifi...
Given that most elementary problems in database design are NP-hard, the currently used database design algorithms produce suboptimal results. For example, the current 3NF decompos...
In this article, we present the GI-Cat web service: a SOAP-based service which provides the basic functionalities for GI dataset cataloguing and access. The introduced GI-Cat data...
Lorenzo Bigagli, Stefano Nativi, Paolo Mazzetti, G...
We introduce a controlled form of recursion in XQuery, an inflationary fixed point operator, familiar from the context of relational databases. This operator imposes restriction...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously synthesize knowledge of interest to a given user (target knowledge) by applying inductive database operators to a local or di...