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SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Evolution of DL - Lite Knowledge Bases
Abstract. We study the problem of evolution for Knowledge Bases (KBs) expressed in Description Logics (DLs) of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the t...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...
COMAD
2009
13 years 6 months ago
TRANS: Schema-Aware Mapping of OWL Ontologies into Relational Databases
An ontology is an explicit specification of shared conceptualization. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies, a...
Saurabh Kejriwal, N. S. Narayanaswamy
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
139views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Semantic Integration: A Survey Of Ontology-Based Approaches
Semantic integration is an active area of research in several disciplines, such as databases, information-integration, and ontologies. This paper provides a brief survey of the ap...
Natalya Fridman Noy
DEXA
2004
Springer
110views Database» more  DEXA 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
An a Priori Approach for Automatic Integration of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Databases
Data integration is the process that gives users access to multiple data sources though queries against a global schema. Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as the most imp...
Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra, Dung Nguyen Xuan, ...
ADBIS
2007
Springer
137views Database» more  ADBIS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
An Object-Oriented Based Algebra for Ontologies and Their Instances
Nowadays, ontologies are used in a lot of diverse research fields. They provide with the capability to describe a huge set of information contents. Therefore, several approaches f...
Stéphane Jean, Yamine Aït Ameur, Guy P...