This paper provides an overview of the Active XML project developed at INRIA over the past
five years. Active XML (AXML, for short), is a declarative framework that harnesses Web …

Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems are attracting increasing attention as an efficient means of
sharing data among large, diverse and dynamic sets of users. The widespread use of XML …

The emerging paradigm of electronic services promises to bring to distributed computation
and services the flexibility that the web has brought to the sharing of documents. An …

While Web applications evolve towards ubiquitous, enterprise-wide or multienterprise
information systems, they face new requirements, such as the capability of managing …

ABSTRACT Personal Information Management Systems require a powerful and versatile
data model that is able to represent a highly heterogeneous mix of data such as relational …

Three-way merging is a technique that may be employed for reintegrating changes to a
document in cases where multiple independently modified copies have been made. While …

Significant effort is currently invested in application integration, enabling business processes
of different companies to interact and form complex multiparty processes. Web service …

XML is becoming the universal format for data exchange between applications. Recently,
the emergence of Web services as standard means of publishing and accessing data on the …

The e-services paradigm promises to enable rich, flexible, and dynamic inter-operation of
highly distributed, heterogeneous network-enabled services. Among the challenges, a …

We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the
desktop to the laptop to the" palmtop" and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can …