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

TL;DR

This paper introduces a semi-automatic, semantic, and lightweight method for integrating multiple XML Schemas, which is adjustable based on a 'severity' parameter, and demonstrates its effectiveness through experiments and comparisons.

Contribution

It presents a novel, parametric approach for XML Schema integration that is almost automatic, semantic, and adaptable to different severity levels, with detailed theoretical and experimental validation.

Findings

The approach effectively integrates XML Schemas at various severity levels.

Experimental results show high accuracy and efficiency.

Compared favorably with existing methods in the literature.

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.