Achieving uniform access to media objects in heterogeneous media repositories requires
dealing with the problem of metadata interoperability. Currently there exist many …

Broadly used Database Management Systems (DBMS) propose multimedia extensions, like
Oracle's Multimedia (formerly interMedia). However, these extensions lack means for …

The proliferation of location-aware consumer applications is increasing the demand for Web
service-based delivery of geospatial content. Significant national and European-wide …

RDF validation is a field where the Semantic Web community is currently focusing attention.
Besides, there is a recent trend to migrate data from different sources to semantic web …

Emerging network service-based spatial data infrastructures (SDI) are creating new
challenges for spatial data providers. One of them is the ever-increasing number of different …

XML is becoming a prevalent format and standard for data exchange in many applications.
With the increase of XML data, there is an urgent need to research some efficient methods to …

XML web data is heterogeneous in terms of content and tagging of information. Integrating,
querying, and presenting heterogeneous collections presents many challenges. The …

In this paper, we propose a new relational schema (R-schema) to XML Schema translation
algorithm that analyzes the cardinality between data values and patterns of user queries to …

We proposed, in previous works, a business process execution language for data-driven
workflow modeling, verification, and execution; the proposed model can present both control …

In this paper, we propose a holistic scheme of transforming a relational schema into an XML
Schema with integrity constraints preserved. This scheme facilitates constructing a schema …