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An Annotated Bibliography
on Temporal and Evolution Aspects
in the World Wide Web


Schema Versioning

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    A Formal Model for Temporal Schema Versioning in Object-Oriented Databases,
    Data and Knowledge Engineering, 46:2, August 2003, pp. 123-167, © Elsevier Science.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    A Relational Multi-Schema Data Model and Query Language for Full Support of Schema Versioning,
    Proc. SEBD 2002 - Natl' Conf. on Advanced Database Systems, Isola d'Elba, Italy, June 2002,
    Stampa 2P, Firenze, pp. 323-336.

  • John F. Roddick, Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Beyond Schema Versioning: a Flexible Model for Spatio-Temporal Schema Selection,
    Geoinformatica 5:1, March 2001, pp. 33-50, © Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Enrico Franconi, Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    Schema Evolution and Versioning: a Logical and Computational Characterisation ,
    Proc. DEMM 2000 - Database Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling
    - Ninth International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (FMLDO)    , Dagstuhl, Germany, September 2000,
    Dagstuhl IBFI, pp. 67-81.

  • Enrico Franconi, Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    A Semantic Approach for Schema Evolution and Versioning in Object-Oriented Databases,
    Proc. DOOD 2000 - Intl' Conf. on Rules and Objects in Databases (a stream of Computational Logic 2000), London, UK, July 2000,
    Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1861, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, pp. 1048-1062.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    ODMG Language Extensions for Generalised Schema Versioning Support,
    Proc. ECDM '99 - Intl' Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management (at Conf. ER'99), Paris, France, November 1999,
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1727, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999, pp. 36-47.

  • John F. Roddick, Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Towards a Model for Spatio-Temporal Schema Selection,
    Proc. STDML '99 - Intl' Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Models and Languages (at Conf. DEXA'99), Florence, Italy, September 1999,
    © IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 1999, pp. 434-440.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Maria Rita Scalas,
    A Generalized Modeling Framework for Schema Versioning Support,
    Proc. ADC 2000 - Australasian Database Conference, Canberra, Australia, January-February 2000,
    © IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 2000, pp. 33-40.

  • Cristina De Castro, Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Schema Versioning for Multitemporal Relational Databases,
    Information Systems 22:5, 1997, pp. 249-290, © Elsevier Science.

  • Cristina De Castro, Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    On Schema Versioning in Temporal Databases,
    in Recent Advances in Temporal Databases (J. Clifford, A. Tuzhilin eds.),
    Workshops in Computing, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, pp. 272-291.

    • Temporal Databases

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Paolo Tiberio,
    Temporal Modelling and Management of Normative Documents in XML Format,
    Data and Knowledge Engineering, 54:3, September 2005, pp. 327-254, © Elsevier Science.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    Effective Representation and Efficient Management of Indeterminate Dates,
    Proc. TIME'01 - Intl' Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, Cividale del Friuli, Italy, June 2001,
    © IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 2001.

  • Laura Amadesi, Fabio Grandi,
    An Adaptive Split Policy for the Time Split B-Tree,
    Data and Knowledge Engineering 29:1, January 1999, pp. 1-15, © Elsevier Science.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    Interoperability in Multi+Temporal Databases,
    Journal of Database Management 9:1, Winter 1998, pp. 14-23, © Idea Group Publishing.

  • Christian S. Jensen, Curtis E. Dyreson (editors), Michael Böhlen, James Clifford, Ramez Elmasri, Shashi K. Gadia, Fabio Grandi, Pat Hayes, Sushil Jajodia, Wolfgang Käfer, Nick Kline, Nikos Lorentzos, Yannis Mitsopoulos, Angelo Montanari, Daniel Nonen, Elisa Peressi, Barbara Pernici, John F. Roddick, Nandlal L. Sarda, Maria Rita Scalas, Arie Segev, Richard T. Snodgrass, Mike D. Soo, Abdullah Tansel, Paolo Tiberio, Gio Wiederhold,
    The Consensus Glossary of Temporal Database Concepts - February 1998 Version,
    in Temporal Databases: Research and Practice (O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, S. Sripada eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1399,
    © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999, pp. 367-405. [online version]

  • Christian S. Jensen, James Clifford, Ramez Elmasri, Shashi K. Gadia, Pat Hayes, Sushil Jajodia (editors), Curtis Dyreson, Fabio Grandi, Wolfgang Käfer, Nick Kline, Nikos Lorentzos, Yannis Mitsopoulos, Angelo Montanari, Daniel Nonen, Elisa Peressi, Barbara Pernici, John F. Roddick, Nandlal L. Sarda, Maria Rita Scalas, Arie Segev, Richard T. Snodgrass, Mike D. Soo, Abdullah Tansel, Paolo Tiberio, Gio Wiederhold,
    A Consensus Glossary of Temporal Database Concepts,
    ACM SIGMOD Record 23:1, March 1994, pp. 52-64, © ACM Press.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas, Paolo Tiberio,
    A History-oriented Temporal SQL Extension,
    Proc. Second International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS '95), Naharia, Israel, June 1995, pp. 42-48.

  • James Clifford, Albert Croker, Fabio Grandi, Alexander Tuzhilin,
    On Temporal Grouping,
    in Recent Advances in Temporal Databases (J. Clifford, A. Tuzhilin eds.),
    Workshops in Computing, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, pp. 194-213.

  • Richard T. Snodgrass, Ilsoo Ahn, Gadi Ariav, Don Batory, James Clifford, Curtis E. Dyreson, Ramez Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Christian S. Jensen, Wolfgang Käfer, Nick Kline, Krishna Kulkarni, T.Y. Cliff Leung, Nikos Lorentzos, Raghu Ramakrishnan, John F. Roddick, Arie Segev, Michael D. Soo, Suryanarayana M. Sripada,
    TSQL2 Language Specification,
    ACM SIGMOD Record 23:1, March 1994, pp. 65-86, © ACM Press.

  • Richard T. Snodgrass, Ilsoo Ahn, Gadi Ariav, Don Batory, James Clifford, Curtis E. Dyreson, Ramez Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Christian S. Jensen, Wolfgang Käfer, Nick Kline, Krishna Kulkarni, T.Y. Cliff Leung, Nikos Lorentzos, John F. Roddick, Arie Segev, Michael D. Soo, Suryanarayana M. Sripada,
    A TSQL2 Tutorial,
    ACM SIGMOD Record 23:3, September 1994, pp. 27-33, © ACM Press.

  • Cristina De Castro, Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Semantic Interoperability of Multitemporal Relational Data,
    in Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '93 (R.A. Elmasri, V. Kuramajian, B. Thalheim, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 823, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, pp. 463-474.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas, Paolo Tiberio,
    History and Tuple Variables for Temporal Query Languages,
    Proc. ARPA/NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases (TDB '93), Arlington, Texas, June 1993, pp. OO1-OO15.

    • Temporal Extensions of the Semantic Web

  • Fabio Grandi,
    Light-weight Ontology Versioning with Multi-temporal RDF Schema,
    Proc. SEMAPRO 2011 - Intl' Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2011, © IARIA, Wilmington, 2011, pp. 42-48.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    T-SPARQL: a TSQL2-like Temporal Query Language for RDF,
    Proc. GraphQ 2010 - Intl' Workshop on on Querying Graph Structured Data (at Conf. ADBIS 2010), Novi Sad, Serbia, September 2010, © CEUR (online), 2010, pp. 21-30.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    Multi-temporal RDF Ontology Versioning,
    Proc. IWOD 2009 - Intl' Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (at Conf. ISWC 2009), Chantilly, VA, October 2009, © CEUR (online), 2009.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    The Valid Ontology: a Simple OWL Temporal Versioning Framework,
    Proc. SEMAPRO 2009 - Intl' Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing, Sliema, Malta, October 2009, © IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 2009, pp. 98-102.

    • Temporal Extensions of the World Wide Web

  • Zouhaier Brahmia, Rafik Bouaziz, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni,
    Schema Versioning in tauXSchema-Based Multitemporal XML Repositories,
    Proc. RCIS 2011 - Intl' Conf. on Research Challenges in Information Science, Gosier, Guadeloupe, May 2011, © IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 2011, pp. 1-12.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    Introducing an Annotated Bibliography on Temporal and Evolution Aspects in the World Wide Web,
    ACM SIGMOD Record 33:2, June 2004, pp. 84-86, © ACM Press.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Paolo Tiberio, Marco Bergonzini,
    A Temporal Data Model and Management System for Normative Texts in XML Format,
    Proc. WIDM 2003 - Intl' Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (at Conf. CIKM 2003), New Orleans, LA, November 2003,
    © ACM Press, New York, 2003, pp. 29-36.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Paolo Tiberio, Marco Bergonzini,
    A Temporal Data Model and System Architecture for the Management of Normative Texts (Extended Abstract),
    Proc. SEBD 2003 - Natl' Conf. on Advanced Database Systems, Cetraro, Italy, June 2003,
    Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, pp. 169-178.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    XML Representation and Management of Temporal Information for Web-based Cultural Heritage Applications ,
    Data Science Journal 1:1, April 2002, pp. 68-83, © CODATA.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    XML Representation and Management of Temporal Information on the Web for Cultural Heritage Applications,
    Proc. SSGRR 2001 - Intl' Conf. on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education and Science on the Internet, L'Aquila, Italy, August 2001,
    © Scuola Superiore G. Reiss Romoli.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    The "XML/Repetti" Project: XML Encoding and Manipulation of Temporal Information in Historical Text Sources,
    Proc. ICHIM'01 - Intl' Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting , Milan, Italy, September 2001,
    © Archive and Museum Informatics and Politecnico di Milano.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    The Valid Web: an XML/XSL Infrastructure for Temporal Management of Web Documents,
    Proc. ADVIS 2000 - Intl' Conf. on Advances in Information Systems , Izmir, Turkey, October 2000,
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1909, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, pp. 294-303.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Extending Temporal Database Concepts to the World Wide Web,
    Proc. SEBD '98 - Natl' Conf. on Advanced Database Systems, Portonovo, Italy, June 1998
    Miliani, Ancona, pp. 53-70.

    • Access Cost Estimation

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Clustering Factor Estimation for Totally Clustered Attributes,
    Data and Knowledge Engineering 14:3, February 1995, pp. 251-264, © Elsevier Science.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    The Gamma-transform: A new Approach to the Study of a Finite and Discrete Random Variable,
    (excerpt from Chapter 3 of my PhD Thesis), 1994.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Block Access Estimation for Clustered Data Using a Finite LRU Buffer,
    IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering 19:7, July 1993, pp.641-660, © IEEE Computer Society Press.

    • Description Logics

  • Fabio Grandi,
    On Expressive Description Logics with Composition of Roles in Number Restrictions,
    Proc. LPAR 2002 - 9th Intl' Conf. on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2002,
    Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2514, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, pp. 202-215.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    On Expressive Number Restrictions in Description Logics,
    Proc. DL 2001 - Intl' Workshop on Description Logics, Stanford, CA, August 2001,
    © CEUR (online), 2001, pp. 56-65.

  • Enrico Franconi, Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    A Semantic Approach for Schema Evolution and Versioning in Object-Oriented Databases,
    Proc. DL 2000 - Intl' Workshop on Description Logics, Aachen, Germany, August 2000,
    © CEUR (online), 2000, pp. 99-112.

    • Information Retrieval

  • Fabio Grandi,
    On the Signature Weight in "multiple m" Signature Files,
    ACM SIGIR Forum (Sec. Refereed papers) 29:1, Spring 1995, pp. 20-25 © ACM Press.

  • Fabio Grandi, Paolo Tiberio, Pavel Zezula,
    Frame-Sliced Partitioned Parallel Signature Files,
    Proc. ACM SIGIR '92 - Intl' Conf. on Information Retrieval, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1992,
    © ACM Press, New York, pp. 286-297.

    • Semantic Web & e-Government

  • Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    Efficient Management of Multi-version XML Documents for E-Government Applications,
    Web Information Systems and Technologies, (J. Filipe, J. Cordeiro, V. Pedrosa, eds.),
    Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 1, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp. 283-294.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Enrico Ronchetti, Paolo Tiberio,
    Semantic Web Techniques for Personalization of eGovernment Services,
    Proc. SemWAT 2006 - Intl' Workshop on Semantic Web Applications: Theory and Practice (at Cof. ER'06), Tucson, Arizona, November 2006,
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4231, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp. 435-444.

  • Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Enrico Ronchetti, Paolo Tiberio, Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas,
    An eGovernment System for Temporal- and Semantic-aware Access to Norms,,
    Proc. SWEG 2006 - The Semantic Web meets eGovernment - 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, California, March 2006, © AAAI Press, Menlo Park, pp. 80-86.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Enrico Ronchetti, Paolo Tiberio
    Personalized Access to Multi-version Norm Texts in an E-Government Scenario,
    Proc. EGOV 2005 - Intl' Conf. on Electonic Government, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2005,
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3591, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005, pp. 281-290.

  • Fabio Grandi, Maria Rita Scalas, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia,
    Personalized Access to Multi-version Documents for E-Government Applications,,
    Proc. IADIS e-Society 2005 Intl' Conference, Qawra, Malta, June 2005, © IADIS Press, Lisbon, pp. 553-558.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Maria Rita Scalas, Paolo Tiberio,
    Management of the Citizen's Digital Identity and Access to Multi-version Norm Texts on the Semantic Web,
    Proc. IPSI 2004 Pescara - Intl' Symposium on Challenges in the Internet and Interdisciplinary Research, Pescara, Italy, July-August 2004, © IPSI, Belgrade.

    • Technical Reports

  • Zouhaier Brahmia, Rafik Bouaziz, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni,
    Schema Versioning in tauXSchema-Based Multitemporal XML Repositories ,
    Tech. Rep. TR-93, TimeCenter, December 2010.

  • Fabio Grandi,
    An Annotated Bibliography on Temporal and Evolution Aspects in the World Wide Web ,
    Tech. Rep. TR-75, TimeCenter, September 2003.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    A Formal Model for Temporal Schema Versioning in Object-Oriented Databases ,
    Tech. Rep. TR-68, TimeCenter, January 2002.

  • Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli,
    The Valid Web: it's Time to Go...,
    Tech. Rep. TR-46, TimeCenter, December 1999.
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