Reversible lossless transformation from OWL 2 ontologies into relational databases

Information Technology and Control

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 293-306

  Vyšniauskas, Ernestas ^a   Nemuraite, Lina ^a   Butleris, Rimantas ^a   Paradauskas, Bronius ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Ontology; OWL 2; QVT Relations language; RDB; Relational database; Reversible lossless transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855256790     PISSN: 1392124X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5755/j01.itc.40.4.979     Document Type: Article

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