Querying and integrating ontologies viewed as conceptual schemas

Theodoratos, D; Dalamagas, T

dc.contributor.author	Theodoratos, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Dalamagas, T	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T11:44:35Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T11:44:35Z
dc.date.issued	2003	en
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/37021
dc.subject	Conceptual Schema	en
dc.subject	Ontology Integration	en
dc.subject	Relational Database Management System	en
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Theory & Methods	en
dc.title	Querying and integrating ontologies viewed as conceptual schemas	en
heal.type	other	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1007/978-3-540-39648-2_42	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39648-2_42	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2003	en
heal.abstract	Real-world ontologies have associated data sets. In order to exploit ontologies as a means to provide semantics to the data it is necessary not only to reason about concepts and their properties but also to be able to query the underlying data and efficiently obtain answers. We view ontologies as conceptual schemas that are populated with data. We define a generic graph-based representation for ontology schemas and provide a language for querying ontologies. This language is appropriate for ontology transformation and ontology integration. We show how ontologies can be integrated by defining views over multiple ontologies, and how user queries can be specified using views. Our approach can be easily implemented on top of a relational database management system. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.	en
heal.publisher	SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN	en
heal.journalName	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	en
heal.bookName	LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/978-3-540-39648-2_42	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000187325600042	en
dc.identifier.volume	2813	en
dc.identifier.spage	548	en
dc.identifier.epage	561	en