A visual approach to semantic query design using a web-based graphical query designer

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

Volumn 5268 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 275-291

  Smart, Paul R ^a   Russell, Alistair ^a   Braines, Dave ^b   Kalfoglou, Yannis ^a   Bao, Jie ^c   Shadbolt, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM   (United Kingdom)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical query language; Ontology; Ontology alignment; Owl; Rdf; Semantic integration; Semantic web; Sparql; Visual query system

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; VISUAL LANGUAGES; WEBSITES;

GRAPHICAL QUERY LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SPARQL; VISUAL QUERY SYSTEM;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 56649089578     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87696-0_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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