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OTM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings Between Relational Tables and Ontologies from Simple Correspondences
There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...
Yuan An, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 5 months ago
Data Modelling versus Ontology Engineering
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. Unlike data models, the fundamental asset of ontologies is the...
Peter Spyns, Robert Meersman, Mustafa Jarrar
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Semantic queries in databases: problems and challenges
Supporting semantic queries in relational databases is essential to many advanced applications. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in various applications, the need for...
Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, Min Wang
DEXA
2009
Springer
151views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Ontologies Wrapping Relational Data Sources
Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...
Lina Lubyte, Sergio Tessaris
SSDBM
2002
IEEE
109views Database» more  SSDBM 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Query Processing with Description Logic Ontologies Over Object-Wrapped Databases
This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...