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Bounded repairability for regular tree languages

Cristian Riveros

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Date

14th February 2012 (week , Hilary Term 2012)

Time

11:30

Place

147

Abstract

In this talk, I will present our recent results about repairing XML documents satisfying a given restriction schema into XML documents satisfying a given target schema. Specifically, I will focus on the more general question of whether one can get from any tree in a regular language R to some tree in another regular language T with a finite, uniformly bounded, number of edit operations (i.e., deletions and insertions of nodes). I will present an effective characterization of the pairs of specifications R and T for which such a uniform bound exists and show the complexity of the problem under different representations of the regular tree languages (e.g., DTDs,  tree automata). Finally, I will point out some connections with the analogous problem for regular languages of words, which was previously studied.

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