Upgrading Databases to Ontologies

3rd International Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming to the

Gisella Bennardo ; Giovanni Grasso ; Nicola Leone ; Francesco Ricca

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PID  :  24653

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In this paper we propose a solution that combines the advantages of an ontology specification language, having powerful rule-based reasoning capabilities, with the possibility to efficiently exploit large (and,often already existent) enterprise databases. In particular, we allow to "up grade" existing databases to an ontology for building a unified view of the enterprise information. Databases are kept and the existing applications can still work on them, but the user can benefit of the new ontological view of the data, and exploit powerful reasoning and information integration services, including: problem-solving, consistency checking, and consistent query answering. Importantly, powerful rule-based reasoning can be carried out in mass-memory allowing to deal also with data-intensive applications.