DLP: A description logic for extracting and managing complex terminological and structural properties from database schemes

Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 401-424

  Palopoli, Luigi ^a   Saccà, Domenico ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; TERMINOLOGY;

DESCRIPTION LOGICS;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033164759     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(99)00024-1     Document Type: Article

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