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CACM
2008
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Ontologies and the semantic web
The goal of semantic web research is to allow the vast range of web-accessible information and services to be more effectively exploited by both humans and automated tools. To fac...
Ian Horrocks
BMCBI
2010
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S3DB core: a framework for RDF generation and management in bioinformatics infrastructures
Background: Biomedical research is set to greatly benefit from the use of semantic web technologies in the design of computational infrastructure. However, beyond well defined res...
Jonas S. Almeida, Helena F. Deus, Wolfgang Maass
AO
2007
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Social acquisition of ontologies from communication processes
This work introduces a formal framework for the social acquisition of ontologies which are constructed dynamically from overhearing the possibly conflicting symbolic interaction o...
Matthias Nickles
GI
2008
Springer
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Simple Back-end Services for Corporate Semantic Web
In order to be adopted within corporate environments, Semantic Web applications must provide tangible short-/medium-term gains. Although corporate Semantic Web offers enterprises n...
Robert Tolksdorf, Radoslaw Oldakowski, Thomas Hopp...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
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Massive Semantic Web data compression with MapReduce
The Semantic Web consists of many billions of statements made of terms that are either URIs or literals. Since these terms usually consist of long sequences of characters, an effe...
Jacopo Urbani, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal
SWWS
2007
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Survey of Semantic Extensions to UDDI: Implications for Sensor Services
−The ability for software agents to discover, query, and task ubiquitous sensors requires machineinterpretable service descriptions, such as those proposed by the Semantic Web ef...
J. Caleb Goodwin, David J. Russomanno, Joseph Qual...
SWAP
2007
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Who the FOAF knows Alice? RDF Revocation in DBin 2.0
In this paper we take a view from the bottom to RDF(S) reasoning. We discuss some issues and requirements on reasoning towards effectively building Semantic Web Pipes, aggregating ...
Christian Morbidoni, Axel Polleres, Giovanni Tumma...
SWAP
2007
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Foaf-O-Matic - Solving the Identity Problem in the FOAF Network
An issue that is equally arising both from social networks and the Semantic Web is the fact that, without the consistent use of the same identifier for an object across systems, i...
Stefano Bortoli, Heiko Stoermer, Paolo Bouquet, Ho...
PSSS
2003
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Prolog-based Infrastructure for RDF: Scalability and Performance
The semantic web is a promising application-area for the Prolog programming language for its non-determinism and patternmatching. In this paper we outline an infrastructure for loa...
Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, Bob J. Wielinga
PSSS
2003
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Representing Contextualized Data using Semantic Web Tools
: RDF-based tools promise to provide a base for reasoning about metadata and about situated data—data describing entities situated in time and space—that is superior to alterna...
Robert M. MacGregor, In-Young Ko