Xifratge d'arxius

Actualment l'ús de la criptografia ha arribat a ser del tot generalitzat, tant en els processos de transmissió i intercanvi segur d'informació, com en l'emmagatzematge secret de dades. Es tracta d'una disciplina els fonaments teòrics de la qual són en l'Àlgebra i en el Càlcul de Probabilitats. La programació d'interfícies gràfiques s'ha realitzat en Java i amb la manipulació, tot i que molt elemental, de documents XML.

Liitetietojen hallinta sähköisessä liiketoiminnassa

Viime vuosikymmenen aikana avoimet ja alustariippumattomat XML-pohjaiset standardikehikot ovat nousseet vakavaksi haastajiksi vanhoille EDI-järjestelmille. Uusilla menetelmillä tavoitellaan joustavampia toimintatapoja, laajempaa yhteensopivuutta ja alustariippumattomuutta. Työn tarkoituksena oli kehittää avoimia standardeja hyödyntävä rajapinta aiemmin toteutettuun WWW-palveluun. Teoriaosuudessa esitellään kolme avointa sähköisen liiketoiminnan kehikkoa, RosettaNet, Web service ja ebXML. Työn käytännön osuudessa toteutettiin sähköisen liiketoiminnan palvelu, jonka avulla organisaatiot voivat välittää dokumentteja keskenään. Palvelu toteutetiin Web service -tyylillä; se käyttää HTTP-protokollaa tiedonsiirtoon ja lähettää ja vastaanottaa tarkasti määriteltyjä XML-sanomia. Eräs keskisuuri suomalainen yritys käyttää toteutettua palvelua verkkolaskujen liitetietojen lähetyksen ja vastaanoton automatisointiin.

PEWS-RT, um sistema de tempo de execução para a linguagem PEWS

Web services are loosely coupled applications that use XML documents as a way of integrating distinct systems on the internet. Such documents are used by in standards such as SOAP, WSDL and UDDI which establish, respectively, integrated patterns for the representation of messages, description, and publication of services, thus facilitating the interoperability between heterogeneous systems. Often one single service does not meet the users needs, therefore new systems can be designed from the composition of two or more services. This which is the design goal behind the of the Service Oriented Architecture. Parallel to this scenario, we have the PEWS (Predicate Path-Expressions for Web Services) language, which speci es behavioural speci cations of composite web service interfaces.. The development of the PEWS language is divided into two parts: front-end and back-end. From a PEWS program, the front-end performs the lexical analysis, syntactic and semantic compositions and nally generate XML code. The function of the back-end is to execute the composition PEWS. This master's dissertation work aims to: (i) reformulate the proposed architecture for the runtime system of the language, (ii) Implement the back-end for PEWS by using .NET Framework tools to execute PEWS programs using the Windows Work ow Foundation

A model and an algebra for semi-structured and full-text queries

The need for a convergence between semi-structured data management and Information Retrieval techniques is manifest to the scientific community. In order to fulfil this growing request, W3C has recently proposed XQuery Full Text, an IR-oriented extension of XQuery. However, the issue of query optimization requires the study of important properties like query equivalence and containment; to this aim, a formal representation of document and queries is needed. The goal of this thesis is to establish such formal background. We define a data model for XML documents and propose an algebra able to represent most of XQuery Full-Text expressions. We show how an XQuery Full-Text expression can be translated into an algebraic expression and how an algebraic expression can be optimized.

Data and behavioral contracts for web services

The recent trend in Web services is fostering a computing scenario where loosely coupled parties interact in a distributed and dynamic environment. Such interactions are sequences of xml messages and in order to assemble parties – either statically or dynamically – it is important to verify that the “contracts” of the parties are “compatible”. The Web Service Description Language (wsdl) is a standard used for describing one-way (asynchronous) and request/response (synchronous) interactions. Web Service Conversation Language extends wscl contracts by allowing the description of arbitrary, possibly cyclic sequences of exchanged messages between communicating parties. Unfortunately, neither wsdl nor wscl can effectively define a notion of compatibility, for the very simple reason that they do not provide any formal characterization of their contract languages. We define two contract languages for Web services. The first one is a data contract language and allow us to describe a Web service in terms of messages (xml documents) that can be sent or received. The second one is a behavioral contract language and allow us to give an abstract definition of the Web service conversation protocol. Both these languages are equipped with a sort of “sub-typing” relation and, therefore, they are suitable to be used for querying Web services repositories. In particular a query for a service compatible with a given contract may safely return services with “greater” contract.

RelAndXML

Diese Dissertation stellt das neu entwickelte SystemRelAndXML vor, das für das Management und dieSpeicherung von hypertextzentrierten XML-Dokumenten und dendazugehörenden XSL-Stylesheets spezialisiert ist. DerAnwendungsbereich sind die Vorlesungsmaterialien anUniversitäten. RelAndXML speichert die XML-formatiertenÜbungsblätter in Textbausteinen und weiterenTeilen in einer speziellen Datenbank.Die Speicherung von XML-Dokumenten in Datenbanken ist seiteinigen Jahren ein wichtiges Thema der Datenbankforschung.Ansätze dafür gliedern sich in solche fürdatenzentrierte und andere für dokumentenzentrierteDokumente. Die Dissertation präsentiert einen Ansatzzur Speicherung von hypertextzentrierten XML-Dokumenten, derAspekte von datenzentrierten und dokumentenzentriertenAnsätzen kombiniert. Der Ansatz erlaubt dieWiederverwendung von Textbausteinen und speichert dieReihenfolge dort, wo sie wichtig ist. Mit RelAndXML könnennicht nur Elemente gespeichert werden, wie mit einigenanderen Ansätzen, sondern auch Attribute, Kommentareund Processing Instructions. Algorithmen für dieFragmentierung und Rekonstruktion von Dokumenten werdenbereit gestellt.RelAndXML wurde mit Java und unter Verwendung einerobjektrelationalen Datenbank implementiert. Das System hateine graphische Benutzungsoberfläche, die das Erstellenund Verändern der XML- und XSL-Dokumente, dasEinfügen von neuen oder schon gespeichertenTextbausteinen sowie das Erzeugen von HTML-Dokumenten zurVeröffentlichung ermöglicht.

INTAMAP: the design and implementation of an interoperable automated interpolation web service

INTAMAP is a Web Processing Service for the automatic spatial interpolation of measured point data. Requirements were (i) using open standards for spatial data such as developed in the context of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), (ii) using a suitable environment for statistical modelling and computation, and (iii) producing an integrated, open source solution. The system couples an open-source Web Processing Service (developed by 52°North), accepting data in the form of standardised XML documents (conforming to the OGC Observations and Measurements standard) with a computing back-end realised in the R statistical environment. The probability distribution of interpolation errors is encoded with UncertML, a markup language designed to encode uncertain data. Automatic interpolation needs to be useful for a wide range of applications and the algorithms have been designed to cope with anisotropy, extreme values, and data with known error distributions. Besides a fully automatic mode, the system can be used with different levels of user control over the interpolation process.

Encapsulating and Manipulating Component Object Graphics (COGs) using SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has an imaging model similar to that of PostScript and PDF but the XML basis of SVG allows it to participate fully, via namespaces, in generalised XML documents.There is increasing interest in using SVG as a Page Description Language and we examine ways in which SVG document components can be encapsulated in contexts where SVG will be used as a rendering technology for conventional page printing.Our aim is to encapsulate portions of SVG content (SVG COGs) so that the COGs are mutually independent and can be moved around a page, while maintaining invariant graphic properties and with guaranteed freedom from side effects and mutual interference. Parellels are drawn between COG implementation within SVG's tree-based inheritance mechanisms and an earlier COG implementation using PDF.

Generació de documents en application/pdf a partir d'una estructura XML

Aquesta memòria vol mostrar que la tecnologia XML és la millor alternativa per a afrontar el repte tecnològic existent en els sistemes d'extracció d'informació de les aplicacions de nova generació. Aquests sistemes, d'una banda, han de garantir la seva independència respecte dels esquemes de les bases de dades dels quals s'alimenten i, de l'altra, han de ser capaços de mostrar la informació en múltiples formats.

Bases de dades XML natives per gestionar documents MPEG-7

Aquest projecte estudia fonamentalment el llenguatge XML i l'ús que se'n fa com a mitjà per a compartir informació entre sistemes i aplicacions diferents, gràcies a la utilització del format text com a base de creació.

Enhancing composite Digital Documents Using XML-based Standoff Markup

Document representations can rapidly become unwieldy if they try to encapsulate all possible document properties, ranging from abstract structure to detailed rendering and layout. We present a composite document approach wherein an XMLbased document representation is linked via a shadow tree of bi-directional pointers to a PDF representation of the same document. Using a two-window viewer any material selected in the PDF can be related back to the corresponding material in the XML, and vice versa. In this way the treatment of specialist material such as mathematics, music or chemistry (e.g. via read aloud or play aloud ) can be activated via standard tools working within the XML representation, rather than requiring that application-specific structures be embedded in the PDF itself. The problems of textual recognition and tree pattern matching between the two representations are discussed in detail. Comparisons are drawn between our use of a shadow tree of pointers to map between document representations and the use of a code-replacement shadow tree in technologies such as XBL.

Estudi de com OWL amplia la funcionalitat d'RDF i aquest, a la seva vegada, d'XML

Aquest document explica com és aquesta web actual o sintàctica, basada en llenguatge HTML, i perquè no treu més profit de la ingent quantitat d'informació que conté. També explica d'una manera detallada quina és l'alternativa que la comunitat informàtica proposa per tal de superar aquests inconvenients.

Estudi de com OWL amplia la funcionalitat d' RDF i aquest, a la vegada d' XML.

L'objectiu general d'aquest treball és conèixer el concepte de web semàntica i aprofundir-hi, i també entendre els principis bàsics d'algunes de les tecnologies en què recolza: les ontologies, l'XML, l'RDF i l'OWL.

XML i Web Semàntica

En aquest treball es realitza una descripció dels llenguatges que constitueixen la base de la construcció de la Web Semàntica: l'XML, l'RDF i l'OWL. En concret, es realitza un estudi de la base de dades lèxica WordNet. Finalment, es presenta el disseny i la implementació d'una ontologia per representar les relacions lèxiques dels mots del català. A partir d'aquesta ontologia es crea una petita base de dades basada en la temàtica dels animals de companyia. Aquest cas pràctic permet extreure conclusions sobre els avantatges d'introduir metadades en els documents electrònics, i sobre les facilitats que ofereixen les aplicacions actuals pel desenvolupament d'aquest tipus de documents.

Comparativa entre Xindice i eXist com a sistemes de bases de dades XML natives

Aquest TFC es basa en el desenvolupament d'un sistema informàtic que permeti fer cerques de persones dins una organització del tipus d'un institut de formació professional, en el qual s'imparteixin cicles formatius de grau mitjà i de grau superior, i batxillerat. La informació estarà desada en documents que incorporaran dades sobre els alumnes, els cursos i la relació que hi ha entre aquests alumnes i diferents organitzacions (per exemple, empreses on fan les seves pràctiques).