Libraries, museums, and other organizations make their electronic contents available to a growing number of users on the Web. A large fraction of the information published is store...
The Nested List Normal Form is proposed as a syntactic normal form for semantically well-designed database schemata obtained from any arbitrary finite nesting of records and lists....
We present a functional model for the analysis of large volumes of detailed transactional data, accumulated over time. In our model, the data schema is an acyclic graph with a sing...
This paper provides an overview of efforts to create an informatics infrastructure for the biodiversity community. A vast amount of biodiversity information exists, but no compreh...
Issues related to updating data in native XML database systems are studied extensively nowadays. In this work we consider a problem of updating typed XML documents having their sc...