An integrated framework for enhancing the semantic transformation, editing and querying of relational databases

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3844-3856

  Vavliakis, Konstantinos N ^a,b,c   Symeonidis, Andreas L ^a,b   Karagiannis, Georgios T ^c   Mitkas, Pericles A ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c The Ormylia Foundation   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ontology editor; OWL DL restriction creation; Relational database to ontology transformation; SPARQL query builder

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS; DATA SETS; EASE-OF-USE; INFERENCING; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; LEGACY DATA; OWL-DL RESTRICTION CREATION; RELATIONAL DATABASE; REQUIRED FUNCTIONALITIES; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; SEMANTIC TRANSFORMATION; SPARQL QUERY BUILDER; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

METADATA; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 78650693544     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.045     Document Type: Article

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