Extension Of XML Research Articles

Markup language for chemical process control and simulation

Exothermic reactions can yield different products, depending upon the available heat energy, a consequence of the reaction rate. To control the yield of desired products, control of the rate of temperature rise is used. The acceptable range of temperature vs. time can be expressed in various ways, e. g., functions, individual temperature values. To afford humans this variety, and to facilitate the transfer of data among computational tools from multiple vendors, such as calorimetry and analysis tools, use of semantic labels, compatible with existing tools, has been implemented. An extension of XML to support expression of the range of acceptable temperature behavior vs. time as a reaction proceeds is described herein. A markup language organized to express the rich ontology of concepts used in process safety seems warranted, and though chemistry schema exist, none was found that specified the reactor temperature boundaries concept. We propose schema components for this concept.

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management (eco-)System: Tools and Services for Extraction, Mobilization, Handling and Re-use of Data from the Published Literature

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management (eco-)System: Tools and Services for Extraction, Mobilization, Handling and Re-use of Data from the Published Literature

Querying archetype-based EHRs by search ontology-based XPath engineering

BackgroundLegacy data and new structured data can be stored in a standardized format as XML-based EHRs on XML databases. Querying documents on these databases is crucial for answering research questions. Instead of using free text searches, that lead to false positive results, the precision can be increased by constraining the search to certain parts of documents.MethodsA search ontology-based specification of queries on XML documents defines search concepts and relates them to parts in the XML document structure. Such query specification method is practically introduced and evaluated by applying concrete research questions formulated in natural language on a data collection for information retrieval purposes. The search is performed by search ontology-based XPath engineering that reuses ontologies and XML-related W3C standards.ResultsThe key result is that the specification of research questions can be supported by the usage of search ontology-based XPath engineering. A deeper recognition of entities and a semantic understanding of the content is necessary for a further improvement of precision and recall. Key limitation is that the application of the introduced process requires skills in ontology and software development. In future, the time consuming ontology development could be overcome by implementing a new clinical role: the clinical ontologist.ConclusionThe introduced Search Ontology XML extension connects Search Terms to certain parts in XML documents and enables an ontology-based definition of queries. Search ontology-based XPath engineering can support research question answering by the specification of complex XPath expressions without deep syntax knowledge about XPaths.

Design and implementation of a user- extensible network packet generator

The security problems of network equipment are becoming more and more important with the fast development of the Internet. Aiming at the security, stability and protocol consistency of network security equipment, a user extensible network security device testing framework is proposed, and a user extensible network packet generator is designed based on Libnet and Libpcap library. The system uses the extensibility of XML document and metadata-based reflection technology to design a set of extensible protocol template, which is composed of user-defined data and data length to construct a specific network data packet to meet the specific network security equipment testing. The security, stability and protocol consistency of the network security equipment are tested by the test method through the test in the LAN simulation environment to ensure the security of the network equipment and the network environment.

Studies of the role of a smart web for precision medicine supported by biobanking.

Both the extraction of medical knowledge from data mining many patient records and from authoritative natural language text on the Internet are important for clinical decision support and biomedical research. The samples in biobanks represent a further kind of information repository of recognized increasing importance, so mechanisms being developed for a smart web for medicine should take them into account. While this paper is primarily a review of Quantum Universal Exchange Language as an XML extension to enable a future smart web for healthcare and biomedicine, it is the first time that we have discussed the connection with biobanks and the design of Quantum Universal Exchange Language's XML-like tags to support their use.

BJCVS is indexed on PubMed Central

Braz J Cardiovasc Surg | Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc he Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) has one more reason to celebrate: finally we have been indexed in PubMed Central – PMC (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/), on-line repository, free access of publications on health area, basis of 3.3 million of full content articles provided by 4.916 journals[1] which BJCVS is part of them now. It is one more platform we are present and I am confident that with the adoption of English language as the official language and the changing from quarterly to bimonthly, it will allow the Journal to be more recognized, accessed, attracting new readers and consequently more people will be interested in publishing their articles making our Impact Factor (IF) could grow again. The presence on PMC is one more award of the work performed since the beginning of my supervision as a Chief-Editor of BJCVS in 2002, in order to provide the journal a wider recognition in the international scenario. Since 2005, the submission and review of the manuscripts have been performed by our website (www.bjcvs.org), we have achieved the indexation in important databases such as PubMed/Medline, ISI-Thomson-Reuters, Scopus, and now PMC. It has been a tough task but pleasant and I feel glad for reaching this current level. It was only possible thanks to the support of the Editorial Staff and also the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (SBCCV), through the several Board of Directors ahead our Society during this time where they have never denied any support or motivation. I also cannot forget to praise my predecessors such as the late Prof. Dr. Adib Jatene, founder of BJCVS and Prof. Dr. Fabio Jatene, who, with a lot of effort have overcame several obstacles to keep a national journal dedicated to heart surgery. I cannot forget to mention GN1, our partner for 10 years, whose support and expertise in Information Technology were essential for our approval at PMC. GN1 is also responsible for creating the files of BJCVS in XML extension, a type of language that allows the sharing through the Internet of information Editorial

Fuzzy XML and prioritized fuzzy XQuery with implementation

In real life, as opposed to virtual, most information comes in the form of imprecise or incomplete values. XML technology has made great progress in the field of storage and data transfer. We developed XML extension which combines indefiniteness in the values of XML and indefiniteness in the structure of XML into a single fuzzy XML extension. Furthermore, this paper expands XQuery syntax with fuzzy values and includes priorities and thresholds in fuzzy XQuery extension using GPFCSP for the first time. Unlike other papers that focus on setting up theories and defining syntax, in this paper, special attention is turned to their practical use. A tool for working with XML, XSD and DTD documents and prioritized fuzzy XQuery extension queries has been developed. One of the advantages of this tool is defining arbitrary membership functions. The developed tool enables defined fuzzy XML extension and their performance to be tested in practice.

On the improvement of active XML (AXML) representation and query evaluation

Active XML (AXML) as intensional data aims to exploit potential computing powers of XML, Web services and P2P architecture. It is considered a powerful extension of XML to deal with dynamic XML data from autonomous and heterogeneous data sources on a very large scale via Web services. However, AXML is still at an immature stage and various issues need to be investigated before it can be accepted widely. This paper will focus on two issues facing the current AXML system, namely the representation and the query process. We propose superior representation and improved query evaluation for AXML. For justification purposes, we compare our proposed algorithms with the existing algorithms.

Design and Implementation of a MEMS Design Process Description Language- MDPDL

For the complexity and miniaturization of MEMS, MEMS design process is extremely different from general mechanical design process. Commonly the design flow is dominated by “trial-and-error” methods. It is necessary to describe design process of MEMS for reuse. This will help to reduce the number of redesigns and thus decrease the time to market. Based on XML and necessary extensions being made, a MEMS design process description language, called MDPDL, is presented and the syntax and implementation are discussed in detail. The Document Type Definition (DTD) is adopted to define the syntax rules for the tags of MDPDL, considering core activities and related resources of MEMS design process. Finally, an implementation case has been given out to illustrate the efficiency of MDPDL.

Integrating Data Warehouses with Web Data: A Survey

This paper surveys the most relevant research on combining Data Warehouse (DW) and Web data. It studies the XML technologies that are currently being used to integrate, store, query and retrieve web data, and their application to DWs. The paper reviews different DW distributed architectures and the use of XML languages as an integration tool in these systems. It also introduces the problem of dealing with semi-structured data in a DW. It studies Web data repositories, the design of multidimensional databases for XML data sources and the XML extensions of On-Line Analytical Processing techniques. The paper addresses the application of information retrieval technology in a DW to exploit text-rich documents collections. The authors hope that the paper will help to discover the main limitations and opportunities that offer the combination of the DW and the Web fields, as well as, to identify open research lines.

An Introduction to XBRL

XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is an open standards-based reporting system being built to accommodate the electronic preparation and exchange of business reports around the world. XBRL is all about the electronic tagging of data. It has been compared to the introduction of bar-coding and to the introduction of the ISBN number for books. While financial data is an obvious choice for electronic tagging, all data can be tagged. XBRL is an extension of XML, the eXtensible Markup Language. An extensible language means one that is designed to easily allow the addition of new features at a later date. As might be expected, the rules, or specifications, for these languages need to be managed so as to allow consistency in their development. The goal of XBRL is to develop a standard set of XML-type tags that can be used to create instance documents that can be then presented in a variety of formats. XBRL is not trying to set new accounting standards; it is attempting to standardise the XML-based tags that are used in business reporting so that the business reports prepared by organisations can be more easily compared and collated for regulatory and other purposes.

Ontology Aided Modeling of Organic Reaction Mechanisms with Flexible and Fragment Based XML Markup Procedures

The mechanism models for primary organic reactions encoding the structural fragments undergoing substitution, addition, elimination, and rearrangements are developed. In the proposed models, each and every structural component of mechanistic pathways is represented with flexible and fragment based markup technique in XML syntax. A significant feature of the system is the encoding of the electron movements along with the other components like charges, partial charges, half bonded species, lone pair electrons, free radicals, reaction arrows, etc. needed for a complete representation of reaction mechanism. The rendering of reaction schemes described with the proposed methodology is achieved with a concise XML extension language interoperating with the structure markup. The reaction scheme is visualized as 2D graphics in a browser by converting them into SVG documents enabling the desired layouts normally perceived by the chemists conventionally. An automatic representation of the complex patterns of the reaction mechanism is achieved by reusing the knowledge in chemical ontologies and developing artificial intelligence components in terms of axioms.

FUZZY DATA REPRESENTATION AND QUERYING IN XML DATABASE

Real-world information including subjective opinions and judgments need imprecise data to be modeled for representation and querying in databases. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become a de-facto standard for data modeling and exchange in recent years. Efforts on modeling imprecision and representing such data in XML have not been fully developed. In this paper, an XML based fuzzy data representation and querying system is presented. Complex and imprecise data are represented using a fuzzy extension of XML. The representation forms the basis for a system which enables fuzzy querying on XML documents using XQuery, a XML query language. The system also enables restructuring of XML Schemas through merging of elements of the XML documents. By using this feature of the system, application specific XML Schema and XML documents can be generated from the existing documents.

A SEMANTIC APPROACH TO HARMONIZING SECURITY MODELS FOR OPEN SERVICES

There is a plethora of different security standards proposed by a range of standards consortia, including the IETF, W3C, and OASIS. There are also sometimes multiple configuration settings for a given security specification. In a heterogeneous open service environment, the variety of security standards and possible settings used can hinder security interoperability, because a common security configuration may not be able to be agreed upon in advance. In this paper, we have developed a generic security model expressed in an XML extension (DAML) and have investigated how to ground this in order to reuse the security specifications from various standards consortia. We have applied this model to support security discovery and dynamic security reconfiguration for use within open service infrastructures.

XML mapping technology: Making connections in an XML-centric world

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has grown rapidly over the last decade to become the de facto standard for heterogeneous data exchange. Its popularity is due in large part to the ease with which diverse kinds of information can be represented as a result of the self-describing nature and extensibility of XML itself. The ease and speed with which information can be represented does not extend, however, to exchanging such information between autonomous sources. In the absence of controlling standards, such sources will typically choose differing XML representations for the same concept, and the actual exchange of information between them requires that the representation produced by one source be transformed into a representation understood by the other. Creating this information exchange “glue” is a tedious and error-prone process, whether expressed as Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), XQuery, Java™, Structured Query Language (SQL), or some other format. In this paper, we present an extensible XML mapping architecture that elevates XML mapping technology to a fundamental integration component that promotes code generation, mapping reuse, and mapping as metadata.

Application of active query languages to the implementation of business rules

The paper deals with the problems of business rules implementation into the Web-based document man­agement system. XML document storing, retrieving, querying, and transformation methods are analyzed. Different active methods based on ECA (event–condition–action) model have been discussed. An Active XQuery language is recognized as the most promising, but it lacks implementation means. A specialized XML extension is created and corresponding interpreter is developed to implement business rules into the document management system of the project MOCURIS. The method proposed can be used to solve similar tasks.

V-DOM and P-XML—towards a valid programming of XML-based applications

Many WWW applications generate hypertext markup language or extensible markup language (XML) documents dynamically. Current tools, however, like languages using document object model (DOM) or JAVA Server Pages do not allow to check the validity of the generated documents statically. Instead, validity has to be ‘checked’ dynamically by appropriate test runs. This paper addresses this problem by introducing a new distinct class for each element type of a document type definition (DTD). Each class extends the Element-class of the DOM. The resulting object model is called validating DOM (V-DOM). Parametric XML (P-XML) is an extension of XML allowing to insert values of the newly defined classes in places, where the corresponding element types are allowed according to the underlying DTD. Like V-DOM, P-XML guarantees the validity of all XML documents generated by using P-XML. V-DOM and P-XML are illustrated by several examples.

XML programming with SQL/XML and XQuery

Most business data are stored in relational database systems, and SQL (Structured Query Language) is used for data retrieval and manipulation. With XML (Extensible Markup Language) rapidly becoming the de facto standard for retrieving and exchanging data, new functionality is expected from traditional databases. Existing SQL applications will evolve to retrieve relational data as XML data using database or SQL extensions for XML. New XML data will be stored, searched, and manipulated in the database as a “first class” citizen along with existing relational data. Furthermore, new applications will emerge which solely operate in terms of XML. These new XML applications operate on the same database using an XML query language, XQuery. In this paper, we describe an integrated database architecture that enables SQL applications with XML extensions as well as XQuery applications to operate on the same data. The architecture allows for a seamless flow from relational data to XML and back.

Representing Time-dependent Information in Multidimensional XML

Multidimensional XML (MXML) is an extension of XML that incorporates dimensions in order to represent in an elegant and concise way context-dependent data, that is, data which can exhibit different variations in value or structure (e.g. that can exist in different languages or various degrees of detail). In this paper we show that MXML dimensions can be used to express time and associate it with XML elements and attributes. We discuss the properties of time domain and the features of MXML which are necessary in order to represent time, and give key points that motivate further investigation on the use of MXML for representing time-dependent data.

XML schema languages: beyond DTD

The flexibility and extensibility of XML have largely contributed to its wide acceptance beyond the traditional realm of SGML. Yet, there is still one more obstacle to be overcome before XML is able to become the evangelized universal data/document format. The obstacle is posed by the limitations of the legacy standard for constraining the contents of an XML document. The traditionally used DTD (document type definition) format does not lend itself to be used in the wide variety of applications XML is capable of handling. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has charged the XML schema working group with the task of developing a schema language to replace DTD. This XML schema language is evolving based on early drafts of XML schema languages. Each one of these early efforts adopted a slightly different approach, but all of them were moving in the same direction.