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ADC
2006
Springer
142views Database» more  ADC 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
An optimization for query answering on ALC database
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...
Pakornpong Pothipruk, Guido Governatori
DEXA
2004
Springer
110views Database» more  DEXA 2004»
15 years 2 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, ...
CORR
2007
Springer
77views Education» more  CORR 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Query Evaluation and Optimization in the Semantic Web
We address the problem of answering Web ontology queries efficiently. An ontology is formalized as a Deductive Ontology Base (DOB), a deductive database that comprises the ontology...
Edna Ruckhaus, Eduardo Ruiz, Maria-Esther Vidal
OTM
2005
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic Ontologies and Relational Databases
The relational algebra and calculus do not take the semantics of terms into account when answering queries. As a consequence, not all tuples that should be returned in response to ...
Octavian Udrea, Yu Deng, Edward Hung, V. S. Subrah...
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
93views Database» more  IDEAS 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Semantic Query Transformation Using Ontologies
Traditional approaches to query processing aim at rewriting a given query into another more efficient one that uses less time and/or resources during the execution. There by, the...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag