Abstract. XML provides a natural mechanism for representing semistructured and unstructured data. It becomes the basis for encoding a large variety of information, for example, the...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
An important reality when integrating scientific data is the fact that data may often be "missing", partially specified, or conflicting. Therefore, in this paper, we pre...
Whereas traditional databases manage only deterministic information, many applications that use databases involve uncertain data. This paper presents a Probabilistic Tree Data Bas...
Business processes drive the operations of an enterprise. In the past, the focus was primarily on business process design, modeling, and automation. Recently, enterprises have rea...