Semantic Characterization of Data Services Through Ontologies

Abstract

We study the problem of associating formal semantic descriptions to data services. We base our proposal on the Ontology-based Data Access paradigm, where a domain ontology is used to provide a semantic layer mapped to the data sources of an organization. The basic idea is to explain the semantics of a data service in terms of a query over the ontology. We illustrate a formal framework for this problem, based on the notion of source-to-ontology (s-to-o) rewriting, which comes in three variants, called sound, complete and perfect, respectively. We present a thorough complexity analysis of two computational problems, namely verification (checking whether a query is an s-to-o rewriting of a given data service), and computation (computing an s-to-o rewriting of a data service).

Cite

Text

Cima et al. "Semantic Characterization of Data Services Through Ontologies." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2019/228

Markdown

[Cima et al. "Semantic Characterization of Data Services Through Ontologies." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2019/cima2019ijcai-semantic/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2019/228

BibTeX

@inproceedings{cima2019ijcai-semantic,
  title     = {{Semantic Characterization of Data Services Through Ontologies}},
  author    = {Cima, Gianluca and Lenzerini, Maurizio and Poggi, Antonella},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2019},
  pages     = {1647-1653},
  doi       = {10.24963/IJCAI.2019/228},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2019/cima2019ijcai-semantic/}
}