The Semantic Web community, until now, has used traditional database systems for the storage and querying of RDF data. The SPARQL query language also closely follows SQL syntax. A...
Medha Atre, Vineet Chaoji, Mohammed J. Zaki, James...
The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the basics of the theory of RDF databases. We provide a formal definition of RDF that includes the features that distinguish this m...
Exploiting the complex structure of relational data enables to build better models by taking into account the additional information provided by the links between objects. We exten...
W3C currently extends the SPARQL query language with so-called entailment regimes, which define how queries are evaluated using logical entailment relations. We describe a sound a...
In this sketchy paper we introduce a logical reconstruction of the RDF family of languages and the OWL-DL family of languages. We prove that our logical framework is equivalent to ...