Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
Background: Incorporation of ontologies into annotations has enabled 'semantic integration' of complex data, making explicit the knowledge within a certain field. One of...
A modelling procedure consists of a sequence of modelling tasks. With the increasing size of models during the development, the relations among modelling objects and their correspo...
Yuan Ren, Jens Lemcke, Andreas Friesen, Tirdad Rah...
Among various metadata design difficulties, 1) designing subsumption relation of two classes, 2) designing diverse properties of a given class, and 3) determining whether an item...
This paper presents an algorithm to match a semantic Web service request against semantic Web service advertisements. The algorithm is to be used by systems to discover semantic W...