Relational databases get more and more employed in order to store the content of a web
site. At the same time, XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard at the hypertext level …

With current database technology trends, there is an increasing need to specify and handle
complex schema changes. The existing support for schema evolution in current OODB …

With rapid progress in application development and technologies, there is an increasing
need to specify and handle complex schema changes of databases. The existing support for …

Modern systems must be adaptable—to changing requirements, bug-fixes, new
technologies and reconfiguration. For critical applications this must be possible at run-time; …

XML has been emerging as a standard format for data representation on the web. In many
application domains, specific document type definitions (DTDs) are designed to enforce the …

Preserving data quality is an important issue in data collection management. One of the
crucial issues hereby is the detection of duplicate objects (called coreferent objects) which …

More than ever before schema transformation is a prevalent problem that needs to be
addressed to accomplish for example the mi-gration of legacy systems to the newer OODB …

As information on the World Wide Web continues to proliferate at an astounding rate, the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been emerging as a standard format for data …

Database transformations is a critical task that occurs in many different domains. Schema
evolution is one important class of problems for database transformations. In our work, we …

Previous works in data integration can be classified according to the approach used to
define objects at the mediation level. One of these approaches is called global-as-view …