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2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Query and Predicate Emptiness in Description Logics
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
ADC
2006
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
An optimization for query answering on ALC database
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...
Pakornpong Pothipruk, Guido Governatori
GPC
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Island-Based Query Answering for Expressive Ontologies
Scalability of reasoning systems is one of the main criteria which will determine the success of Semantic Web systems in the future. The focus of recent work is either on (a) expre...
Sebastian Wandelt, Ralf Möller
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Decomposition-Based Approach to Optimizing Conjunctive Query Answering in OWL DL
Scalable query answering over Description Logic (DL) based ontologies plays an important role for the success of the Semantic Web. Towards tackling the scalability problem, we prop...
Jianfeng Du, Guilin Qi, Jeff Z. Pan, Yi-Dong Shen
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Answering Queries Using Views over Description Logics Knowledge Bases
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Len...