This paper presents the Kuaba Ontology, a knowledge representation model for Design Rationale described in an ontology definition language. The representation of this model in a sp...
Adriana Pereira de Medeiros, Daniel Schwabe, Bruno...
A research has been carried on and is still in progress aimed at the construction of three specialized lexicons organized as databases of relational type. The three databases cont...
Rita Marinelli, Adriana Roventini, Giovanni Spadon...
ct The backbone of the XML data model, namely ordered, unranked trees, is inherently recursive and it is natural to equip the associated languages with constructs that can query su...
We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...
Because performance is a crucial issue in database systems, data caching techniques have been studied in database research field, especially in client-server databases and distrib...