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SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 3 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 7 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
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14 years 6 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 11 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»
14 years 7 days 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...