• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.307-319
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• 2015

Current ontology studies use the Hadoop distributed storage framework to perform map-reduce algorithm-based reasoning for scalable ontologies. In this paper, however, we propose a novel approach for scalable Web Ontology Language (OWL) Horst Lite ontology reasoning, based on distributed cluster memories. Rule-based reasoning, which is frequently used for scalable ontologies, iteratively executes triple-format ontology rules, until the inferred data no longer exists. Therefore, when the scalable ontology reasoning is performed on computer hard drives, the ontology reasoner suffers from performance limitations. In order to overcome this drawback, we propose an approach that loads the ontologies into distributed cluster memories, using Spark (a memory-based distributed computing framework), which executes the ontology reasoning. In order to implement an appropriate OWL Horst Lite ontology reasoning system on Spark, our method divides the scalable ontologies into blocks, loads each block into the cluster nodes, and subsequently handles the data in the distributed memories. We used the Lehigh University Benchmark, which is used to evaluate ontology inference and search speed, to experimentally evaluate the methods suggested in this paper, which we applied to LUBM8000 (1.1 billion triples, 155 gigabytes). When compared with WebPIE, a representative mapreduce algorithm-based scalable ontology reasoner, the proposed approach showed a throughput improvement of 320% (62k/s) over WebPIE (19k/s).

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.553-561
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• 2016

Several machine learning techniques are able to automatically populate ontology data from web sources. Also the interest for large scale ontology reasoning is increasing. However, there is a problem leading to the speculative result to imply uncertainties. Hence, there is a need to consider the reliability problems of various data obtained from the web. Currently, large scale ontology reasoning methods based on the trust value is required because the inference-based reliability of quantitative ontology is insufficient. In this study, we proposed a large scale OWL Horst reasoning method based on a confidence value using spark, a distributed in-memory framework. It describes a method for integrating the confidence value of duplicated data. In addition, it explains a distributed parallel heuristic algorithm to solve the problem of degrading the performance of the inference. In order to evaluate the performance of reasoning methods based on the confidence value, the experiment was conducted using LUBM3000. The experiment results showed that our approach could perform reasoning twice faster than existing reasoning systems like WebPIE.