To Weave the Web

Summary: Introduces ARANEUS, a database-inspired model for Web hypertext schemas, plus ULIXES for extracting Web views into databases and PENELOPE for generating derived hypertext views from relational data—bridging Web restructuring and view management. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hd37f31c6e4c8e766
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.0177508e-05
Overall Rank: 2,785 | 81.28%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Paolo Atzeni (University of Roma Tre)
2. Giansalvatore Mecca (University of Basilicata)
3. Paolo Merialdo (University of Roma Tre)

BibTeX Citation

@article{atzeni_vldb97,
        title = {{To Weave the Web}},
        author = {Atzeni, Paolo and Mecca, Giansalvatore and Merialdo, Paolo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
515	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00016970049
1,330	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010999761
2,643	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.177657e-05
3,564	QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data	2002	SIGMOD	7.204119e-05
4,020	Data-Driven One-to-One Web Site Generation for Data-Intensive Applications	1999	VLDB	6.8511112e-05
4,376	Optimization of Run-time Management of Data Intensive Web Sites	1999	VLDB	6.6286338e-05
4,592	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.513694e-05
4,916	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.356008e-05
9,213	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	5.2059251e-05
13,046	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
14,399	HOMER: a Model-Based CASE Tool for Data-Intensive Web Sites	2000	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031630695
130	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030320165
413	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018681401
586	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00015944965
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012597028
2,763	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	8.044061e-05

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