In this paper, we introduce principles for ontology-based querying of information bases. We consider a framework in which a basis ontology over atomic concepts in combination with ...
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...
Many applications employ sensors for monitoring entities such as temperature and wind speed. A centralized database tracks these entities to enable query processing. Due to contin...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
The semantic web is based on ontologies and metadata that indexes resources using ontologies. This indexing is called annotation. Ontology based information retrieval is an operati...
Abstract. This paper describes the design and implementation of Bibster, a Peer-to-Peer system for exchanging bibliographic data among researchers. Bibster exploits ontologies in d...
Peter Haase, Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Maarten M...