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CBMS
2006
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
An Ontology-Driven Mediator for Querying Time-Oriented Biomedical Data
— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Amar K. Das
VLDB
2007
ACM
195views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 5 months ago
Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects Using Shapelets
Research in modeling and querying spatial data has primarily focused on traditional "crisp" spatial objects with exact location and spatial extent. More recent work, how...
Daniel Zinn, Jim Bosch, Michael Gertz
ER
2007
Springer
167views Database» more  ER 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
An Unified Dynamic Description Logic Model for Databases: Relational Data, Relational Operations and Queries
The paper presents an unified Description Logic (DL) model for databases. Describing database models using DLs is a fundamental problem in many areas because it turns databases to...
Guoshun Hao, Shilong Ma, Yuefei Sui, Jianghua Lv
KR
2010
Springer
15 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...
AMW
2010
15 years 6 months ago
Query Rewriting under Non-Guarded Rules
We address the problem of answering conjunctive queries over knowledge bases, specified by sets of first-order sentences called tuple-generating dependencies (TGDs). This problem i...
Andrea Calì, Georg Gottlob, Andreas Pieris