• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.526-535
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• 2005

Ontology is a methodology on describing specific concepts and their relationships, and it is being considered important more and more as semantic web and variety of knowledge management systems are being highlighted. Ontology uses the relationships among concerts to represent some concrete semantics of specific concept. When we want to get some useful information from ontology, we severely have to process the transitive relationships because most of relationships among concepts represent transitivity. Technically, it causes recursive calls to process such transitive closure queries with heavy costs. This paper describes the efficient technique for processing transitive closure queries in ontology. To the purpose of it, we examine some approaches of current systems for transitive closure queries, and propose a technique by graph labeling scheme. Basically, we assume large size of ontology, and then we show that our approach gives relative efficiency in processing of transitive closure, queries.