Rewriting queries for web searches that use local expressions

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

Volumn 6826 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 345-359

  Grütter, Rolf ^a   Helming, Iris ^a   Speich, Simon ^a   Bernstein, Abraham ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DL safe SWRL rules; Local expression; Query rewriting; Region Connection Calculus (RCC); Web Ontology Language (OWL)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894468614     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22546-8_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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