Automata play an important role for the theoretical foundations of XML data management,
but also in tools for various XML processing tasks. This survey article aims to give an …

During the past few years, several of us have been asked many times about references on
finite tree automata. On one hand, this is the witness of the liveness of this field. On the other …

Interoperability in BIM is low and the focus is on 3D coordination. Despite the available
standards including IFC and IDM, there is still no clear guidance how such standards can be …

RDF is a graph based data model which is widely used for semantic web and linked data
applications. In this paper we describe a Shape Expression definition language which …

In recent years, JSON established itself as a very popular data format for representing
massive data collections. JSON data collections are usually schemaless. While this ensures …

Regular expressions are widely used within and even outside of computer science due to
their expressiveness and flexibility. However, regular expressions have a quite compact and …

Recent years have seen the widespread use of JSON as a data format to represent massive
data collections. JSON data collections are usually schemaless. While this ensures several …

Access control policies for XML typically use regular path expressions such as XPath for
specifying the objects for access-control policies. However such access-control policies are …

The Geographic Information (GI), also known as geo-spatial data, is the information that
describes phenomena associated directly or indirectly with a location with respect to the …

Among the various proposals answering the shortcomings of Document Type Definitions
(DTDs), XML Schema is the most widely used. Although DTDs and XML Schema Definitions …