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ADC
2006
Springer
142views Database» more  ADC 2006»
14 years 1 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»
14 years 26 days 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»
13 years 7 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
14 years 29 days 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»
14 years 1 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