Schema evolution is the increasingly important ability to adapt deployed schemas to
changing requirements. Effective support for schema evolution is challenging since schema …

Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional
information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as …

One of the problems arising upon the evolution of a database schema is that some queries
and views defined on the previous schema version might no longer work properly. Thus …

The evolution of ontologies is an undisputed necessity in ontology-based data integration.
Yet, few research efforts have focused on addressing the need to reflect the evolution of …

XML is de-facto a standard language for data exchange. Structure of XML documents
exchanged among different components of a system (eg services in a Service-Oriented …

The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution
process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major …

Background The today's public database infrastructure spans a very large collection of
heterogeneous biological data, opening new opportunities for molecular biology, bio …

A major advantage of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is composition and coordination
of loosely coupled services. Because the development lifecycles of services and clients are …

Recently, XML has achieved the leading role among languages for data representation and,
thus, the amount of related technologies and applications exploiting them grows fast …

XML has conquered its place as the most used standard for representing Web data. An XML
schema may be employed for similar purposes of those from database schemas. There are …