After more than two decades of its use, XML is not only a standard format for exchanging
data between different (Web) applications but also a model for a family of some emerging or …

XML is de-facto a standard language for data exchange. Structure of XML documents
exchanged among different components of a system (eg services in a Service-Oriented …

XML Schemas describe the structure of valid documents and can be exploited for improving
both the efficiency and effectiveness of queries on valid documents. XML Schemas …

Like other components of Semantic Web-based applications, ontologies are evolving over
time to reflect changes in the real world. Several of these applications require keeping a full …

XML has been explored by both research and industry communities. More than 5500 papers
were published on different aspects of XML. With so many publications, it is hard for …

We consider the problem of XML schema evolution preserving the validity of existing
documents related to the original schema. The aim of such schema evolution is to fit new …

ABSTRACT A multi-temporal XML database is an XML database in which an XML document
can contain elements of different temporal formats (transaction-time, valid-time, bitemporal …

The aim of this paper is to extend the family of Glushkov automata. This is achieved by
designing new operators, the so-called multi-tilde-bar operators, that allow us to compute …

We present an algorithm for the correction of an XML document with respect to schema
constraints expressed as a document type definition. Given a well-formed XML document t …

The most common applications of the today's IT world are information systems. The
problems related to their design and implementation have sufficiently been solved …