• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.151-162
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• 2006

RDF Semantics, one of W3C Recommendations, provides the RDFS entailment rules, which are used for the RDFS inference. Sesame, which is well known RDF repository, supports the RDBMS-based RDFS inference using the forward-chaining strategy. Since inferencing in the forward-chaining strategy is performed in the data loading time, the data loading time in Sesame is slow down be inferencing. In this paper, we propose the order scheme for applying the RDFS entailment rules to improve inference performance. The proposed application order makes the inference process terminate without repetition of the process for most cases and guarantees the completeness of inference result. Also the application order helps to reduce redundant results during the inference by predicting the results which were made already by previously applied rules. In this paper, we show that our approaches can improve the inference performance with comparisons to the original Sesame using several real-life RDF datasets.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.74-78
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• 2009

Efficient reasoning has become important for improving the performance of ontology systems as the size of ontology grows. In this paper, we introduce a method that efficiently performs reasoning of RDFS entailment rules (i.e., rdfs7 and rdfs9 rules) and OWL inverse rule using views in the DBMS-based triple sotre. Reasoning is performed by replacing reasoning rules with the corresponding view definition and storing RDF triples into the structured triple tables. When processing queries, the views is referred instead of original tables. In this way, we can reduce the time needed for reasoning and also obtain the space-efficiency of the triple store.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.125-133
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• 2009

RDF is widely used as the ontology language for representing metadata on the semantic web. Since ontology models the real-world, ontology changes overtime. Thus, it is very important to detect and analyze changes in knowledge base system. Earlier studies on detecting changes between RDF models focused on the structural differences. Some techniques which reduce the size of the delta by considering the RDFS entailment rules have been introduced. However, inferencing with RDF models increases data size and upload time. In this paper, we propose a new change detection using RDF reasoning that only computes a small part of the implied triples using backward chaining strategy. We show that our approach efficiently detects changes through experiments with real-life RDF datasets.