Abstract. Schema mappings play a central role in both data integration and data exchange, and are understood as high-level specifications describing the relationships between data...
The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking ...
The first step in finding an efficient way to solve any difficult problem is making a complete, possibly formal, problem specification. This paper introduces a formal specifica...
Marko Smiljanic, Maurice van Keulen, Willem Jonker
XML is becoming the standard representation format for metadata. Metadata for multimedia documents, as for instance MPEG-7, require approximate match search functionalities to be s...
Since XML tends to become the main format to exchange data over the Internet, it is necessary to define a security model to control the access to the content of these documents. S...