The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
—In the paper “semQA: SPARQL with Idempotent Disjunction” [Shironoshita et al. 2009], the authors study the RDF query language SPARQL. In particular, they claim that some of ...
Both Topic Maps and RDF are popular semantic web standards designed for machine processing of web documents. Since these representations were originally created for different purpo...
Understanding how users tailor their SPARQL queries is crucial when designing query evaluation engines or fine-tuning RDF stores with performance in mind. In this paper we analyz...