CSE291, Spring 2002 - Current Topics in Databases: Homepage & Schedule

From Syntactic to Conceptual XML Queries and Knowledge-Based Information Integration

Main References

1. Time to Leave the Trees: From Syntactic to Conceptual Querying of XML, B. Ludäscher, I. Altintas, A. Gupta, Intl. Workshop on XML Data Management (XMLDM), in conjunction with Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Prague, Czech Republic, March 2002.
2. Presentation (B. Ludascher):
   [From Syntactic to Conceptual XML Queries and Knowledge-Based Information Integration.ppt]

   Further References

3. Ian Horrocks, DAML+OIL: a Reason-able Web Ontology Language. Keynote talk at EDBT 2002, Prague, March 26th, 2002. [.pdf]
4. Description logics for information integration, Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, and Maurizio Lenzerini In A. Kakas and F. Sadri, editors, Computational Logic: From Logic Programming into the Future (In honour of Bob Kowalski), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2002. To appear.
5. Knowledge based information integration systems N.W. Paton, C.A. Goble, S. Bechhofer, Information and Software Technology 42 (2000) 299-312
6. Ontology-Based Integration of Information: A Survey of Existing Approaches H. Wache, T. Voegele, U. Visser, H. Stuckenschmidt, G. Schuster, H. Neumann and S. Huebner

   Additional References of Interest to the Seminar

   Active Databases/Workflow Related

7. Integration of Active and Deductive Database Rules, B. Ludäscher, PhD thesis, DISDBIS 45, infix-Verlag, Sankt Augustin, ISBN 3-89601-445-5, 1998.
8. On Active Deductive Databases: The Statelog Approach, G. Lausen, B. Ludäscher, and W. May. In Transactions and Change in Logic Databases, Hendrik Decker, Burkhard Freitag, Michael Kifer, and Andrei Voronkov, editors. LNCS 1472, Springer, 1998.
9. Modeling Interactive Web Sources for Information Mediation, B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta, Intl. Workshop on the World-Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling (WWWCM'99), Paris, France, LNCS 1727, Springer, November 1999.

   Miscellaneous

10. John Grant, Jack Minker: A logic-based approach to data integration. TPLP 2(3): 323-368 (2002)