In the present short survey, some research topics, in which an integrated approach to knowledge representation and databases is useful, are briefly listed. Our novel technique allows the uniform access to information distributed over knowledge bases and databases, by means of DL-based query language. The separately exsisting retrieving functions of description logics management systems and of database management systems are integrated, in our extended paradigm, in order to allow, via a query language grounded on a DL-based schema knowledge, uniformly formulating and answering queries and, thus, uniform retrieval from mixed knowledge/data bases
The Challenge of Integrating Knowledge Representation and Databases
Bresciani, Paolo
1996-01-01
Abstract
In the present short survey, some research topics, in which an integrated approach to knowledge representation and databases is useful, are briefly listed. Our novel technique allows the uniform access to information distributed over knowledge bases and databases, by means of DL-based query language. The separately exsisting retrieving functions of description logics management systems and of database management systems are integrated, in our extended paradigm, in order to allow, via a query language grounded on a DL-based schema knowledge, uniformly formulating and answering queries and, thus, uniform retrieval from mixed knowledge/data basesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
