• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.35-47
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• 2011

This paper proposes a set of rules to automatically generate OWL ontologies from relational databases. The purpose of the rules is to allow semantic access to existing RDB data without any database schema transformation and data migration process. In other words, the rules help a RDBMS play as a web ontology repository as well. However, the use of the mapping rules between RDB and OWL proposed by other studies for the objective causes troubles as follows. First, databases including the tables with a specific structure can't be translated into OWL. Second, the process for extracting an OWL individual unnecessarily lead to database join operations, or several SQL queries. On the other hand, our rules is designed to prevent these problems, can generate OWL classes and properties from database schemas and can generate OWL individuals from the database instances. In addition, an ontology generated by our rules is an OWL 2 DL ontology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.144-148
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• 2007

W3C에서 표준 온톨로지 언어로 OWL을 채택함에 따라 많은 온톨로지들이 OWL로 기술 및 구현되고 있다. 이에 따라 대용량의 OWL 문서를 효율적으로 저장하고, 검색할 수 있는 모델에 대한 필요성이 제기되고 있으며, Jena, $Prot{\acute{e}}g{\acute{e}}$, Sesame, FacT 등 다양한 프레임워크가 제안되어 활발히 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이 논문에서는 기본적인 Jena2의 저장소 모델이 단일 테이블에 문서의 정보를 저장하여 대용량의 OWL데이터의 처리에 있어 성능이 저하되는 문제점을 해결하여 대용량의 OWL 문서의 효율적인 저장, 관리, 질의 가능한 OWL 온톨로지 관계형 데이터베이스 모델을 제안한다. 또한 OWL 온톨로지 관계형 데이터베이스 모델을 위한 어댑터 및 컨버터를 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.92-103
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• 2010

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has become the W3C recommendation for publishing and sharing ontologies on the Semantic Web. To derive hidden information from OWL data, a number of OWL reasoners have been proposed. Since OWL reasoners are memory-based, they cannot handle large-sized OWL data. To overcome the scalability problem, RDBMS-based systems have been proposed. These systems store OWL data into a database and perform reasoning by incorporating the use of a database. However, they do not consider complete reasoning on all types of properties defined in OWL and the database schemas they use are ineffective for reasoning. In addition, they do not manage updates to the OWL data which can occur frequently in real applications. In this paper, we compare various database schemas used by RDBMS-based systems and propose an improved schema for efficient reasoning. Also, to support reasoning for all the types of properties defined in OWL, we propose a complete and efficient reasoning algorithm. Furthermore, we suggest efficient approaches to managing the updates that may occur on OWL data. Experimental results show that our schema has improved performance in OWL data storage and reasoning, and that our approaches to managing updates to OWL data are more efficient than the existing approaches.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.61-66
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• 2008

In recent years, numerous studies have been attempted to exploit ontology in the area of ubiquitous computing. Especially, some kinds of ontologies written in OWL are proposed for major issues in ubiquitous computing such like context-awareness. OWL is recommended by W3C as a descriptive language for representing ontology with rich vocabularies. However, developers struggle to design ontology using OWL, because of the complex syntax of OWL. The research for OWL visualization aims to overcome this problem, but most of the existing approaches unfortunately do not provide efficient interface to visualize OWL ontology. Moreover, as the size of ontology grows bigger, each class and relation are difficult to represent on the editing window due to the small size limitation of screen. In this paper, we present OWL visualization scheme that supports class information in detail. This scheme is based on concept of social network, and we implement OWL visualization plug-in on $Prot{\acute{e}}g{\acute{e}}$ that is the most famous ontology editor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.646-648
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• 2005

시맨틱 웹과 시맨틱 웹 서비스의 논리적 기반이 되는 온톨로지에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. W3C는 웹 온톨로지 기술을 위한 표준 언어로 OWL을 발표했고, OWL로 기술된 온톨로지는 웹 서비스, 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 등에서 활용되고 있다. 그러나 OWL의 복잡한 문법 구조는 OWL 온틀로지 개발을 어렵게 하고 있어, 직관적으로 OWL 온틀로지를 개발할 수 있는 방법이 요구되었고. 이를 위해 Protege 등 많은 온톨로지 편집기들이 개발되었다. 본 논문에서는 쉬운 OWL 온톨로지 편집을 위해 개체 중심의 온톨로지 시각화를 통한 온톨로지 편집기 개발에 관한 내용을 담고 있다. 이 편집기는 JDK 1.4 환경에서 개발되었으며 OWL 온톨로지 분석을 위해 Jena2 API를 사용하였다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.259-276
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• 2004

ebXML and Web Services provide UDDI and ebXML registry for storing and managing the business and Service information of companies, respectively. Recently, W3C have released the OWL(Web Ontology Language) to Recommendation, and OWL-S proposed to describe the semantics of Web Services using the OWL ontologies. In this paper, we compared the OWL-S with the registry information model(RIM) of ebXML and the data structure of UDDI, and directly connect ones, which that of ebXML similar to that of UDDI; we extend the structure of the OWL to connect the rests. Consequently, our system enables to construct the ontologies of services and discover their semantics by using the information stored in the registries, and tintegrate UDDI, ebXML registry and OWL-S registry. By using the extending OWL-S documents in our system, agents can utilize for the semantic matchmaking.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.191-216
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• 2006

This paper deals with the definition, function and type of ontology based on precedent study particularly the paper describes a Using Methods for OWL vocabulary and syntactics to Ontology Automatic Construction. Also for easily learning the usage methods for OWL vocabulary and syntactics, it introduces a detailed definition for syntactics of Class, Property, Class relativeness, Property relativeness and presents a sample data and explanation based on Wine Ontology which have constructed.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.114-123
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• 2006

We present in this paper the methodology for automatic generation of OWL-S service model ontology along with the results and issues. First, we extract information related to atomic services and their properties such as IOPE from the UML class diagram, and retrieve information related to the composition of services from the UML state-chart diagram. Then, the XSLT applications utilize the acquired information to generate the OWL-S service model ontology through the predefined mappings between OWL-S constructs for composite services and UML state-chart primitives. For the justification of generated service ontology, several validation checks are performed. Our service ontology generation method is general and fully automatic, as well as effective, in that it is achieved in an environment familiar to developers, and information needed to generate service ontology is provided necessarily during service development. It is also noticeable to facilitate representing the condition with GUI rather than a complex language such as OCL.

• Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.263-271
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new XMDR-based data model to efficiently manage ontology schema structured in OWL format. The proposed model would be better equipped to manage the relationship between concepts, which is a problematic area in the existing MDR model. Moreover, we present an algorithm to manage ontology schema in the database. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, experiments were conducted to recreate OWL documents for the various expressive types of OWL ontology schema that are stored in the database. These experimental results demonstrated that the proposed model effectively managed the various types of OWL ontology schema.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.226-241
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• 2014

LOD(Linked Open Data) is composed of RDF triples which are based on ontologies. They are identified, linked, and accessed under the principles of linked data. Publications of LOD data sets lead to the extension of LOD cloud and ultimately progress to the web of data. However, if ontologically the same things in different LOD data sets are identified by different URIs, it is difficult to figure out their sameness and to provide trustworthy links among them. To solve this problem, we suggest a Trustworthiness Improving Link Evaluation, TILE for short, technique. TILE evaluates links in 4 steps. Step 1 is to consider the inference property of syntactic elements in LOD data set and then generate RDF triples which have existed implicitly. In Step 2, TILE appoints predicates, compares their objects in triples, and then evaluates links between the subjects in the triples. In Step 3, TILE evaluates the predicates' syntactic property at the standpoints of subject description and vocabulary definition and compensates the evaluation results of Step 2. The syntactic elements considered by TILE contain RDFS, OWL, OWL2 which are recommended by W3C. Finally, TILE makes the publisher of LOD data set review the evaluation results and then decide whether to re-evaluate or finalize the links. This leads the publishers' responsibility to be reflected in the trustworthiness of links among the data published.