Ontology based query processing in database management systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2888, Issue , 2003, Pages 839-857

  Necib, Chokri Ben ^a   Freytag, Johann Christoph ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Databases; Ontologies; Query Processing; Semantic Knowledge

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DATA INTEGRATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB;

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SOURCES; INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES; INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS; ONTOLOGY-BASED QUERY PROCESSING; QUERY OPTIMIZATION; QUERY TRANSFORMATIONS; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 0242628829     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39964-3_53     Document Type: Article

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