Temporal data mining deals with the harvesting of useful information from temporal data.
New initiatives in health care and business organizations have increased the importance of …

This article describes XRel, a novel approach for storage and retrieval of XML documents
using relational databases. In this approach, an XML document is decomposed into nodes …

Ontologies are becoming a core technology for supporting the sharing, integration, and
management of information sources in Semantic Web applications. As critical as ontologies …

Update management of XML documents is an increasingly important research issue in XML
databases, because contents of XML documents evolve as time goes by. Even though, XML …

The Linked Data paradigm has enabled a huge shared infrastructure for connecting data
from different domains which can be browsed and queried together as a huge knowledge …

Transaction time is the time of database transactions that create, modify, or destroy facts. It is
used to record when facts exist in a database. Accounting for transaction time is essential to …

The W3C XML Schema recommendation defines the structure and data types for XML
documents, but lacks explicit support for time-varying XML documents or for a time-varying …

Abstract The W3C XML Schema recommendation defines the structure and data types for
XML documents. XML Schema lacks explicit support for time-varying XML documents. Users …

By storing the successive versions of a document in an incremental fashion, XML
repositories and data warehouses achieve:(i) the efficient preservation of critical information …

In this paper, we present the results of a research project concerning the temporal
management of normative texts in XML format. In particular, four temporal dimensions …