Teaching

Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble, Option Artificial Intelligence and the Web

"The semantic web: from XML to OWL - Foundations for XML" is a course on the foundations for processing tree-shaped data given in the Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble at the University Grenoble Alpes. This course aims at introducing programming language foundations, algorithms and tools for processing tree-structured information, and for the analysis of queries and programs that manipulate trees. It consists in an introduction to relevant theoretical tools with an application to NoSQL and XML technologies in particular. The theoretical part introduces tree grammars, finite tree automata, classical tree logics and a recent mu-calculus of finite trees, in connection to practical problems and technologies such as XPath/XQuery, DTD, schemas, etc. Applications are illustrated through on-the-fly validation of document streams, efficient query evaluation, static analysis of expressive queries in the presence of constraints, and static type-checking of programs manipulating labeled trees. The course also aims at presenting challenges, important results, and open theoretical issues in the area of NoSQL programming. Pointers to teaching material can be found below.

Course Introduction
Core XML: XML, DTD, XML Schema, XML Parsing	slides
Excursion (streaming DTD validation with SAX)	slides
XPath	slides
XQuery and Static Type-Checking	slides
Foundations of XML Types: An Introduction	slides
Tree Grammars	slides
Finite Tree Automata (inspired by W. Martens and T. Schwentick)	slides
First-Order Logic and Monadic Second-Order Logic	slides
Advanced Static Analysis for XML/XPath	slides

A few sample questions and suggested answers of a course exam given at EPFL.

You may also want to have a look at some other recommended reading material prepared by colleagues.