Kontchakov, Roman and Lutz, C. and Toman, D. and Wolter, F. and Zakharyaschev, Michael (2010) The combined approach to query answering in DL-Lite. In: Lin, F. and Sattler, U. and Truszczynski, M. (eds.) Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference, KR 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 9-13, 2010. California, U.S.: AAAI Press. ISBN 9781577354512.
Abstract
Databases and related information systems can benefit from the use of ontologies to enrich the data with general background knowledge. The DL-Lite family of ontology languages was specifically tailored towards such ontology-based data access, enabling an implementation in a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on a query rewriting approach. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to implementing ontology-based data access in DL-Lite. The distinguishing feature of our approach is to allow rewriting of both the query and the data. We show that, in contrast to the existing approaches, no exponential blowup is produced by the rewritings. Based on experiments with a number of real-world ontologies, we demonstrate that query execution in the proposed approach is often more efficient than in existing approaches, especially for large ontologies. We also show how to seamlessly integrate the data rewriting step of our approach into an RDBMS using views (which solves the update problem) and make an interesting observation regarding the succinctness of queries in the original query rewriting approach.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Roman Kontchakov |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2012 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5337 |
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