Almost automatic and semantic integration of XML schemas at various "severity" levels

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach for the integration of a set of XML Schemas. The proposed approach is specialized for XML, is almost automatic, semantic and "light". As a further, original, peculiarity, it is parametric w.r.t. a "severity" level against which the integration task is performed. The paper describes the approach in all details, illustrates various theoretical results, presents the experiments we have performed for testing it and, finally, compares it with various related approaches already proposed in the literature. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.