Description Logics, Data Modelling and Relational Dependencies

  • Authors:
  • Tapio Niemi;Marko Niinimäki;Santtu Toivonen

  • Affiliations:
  • Helsinki Institute of Physics at CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, tapio.niemi@cern.ch;NorduGrid at CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, marko.niinimaki@cern.ch;VTT Information Technology, P.O.Box 1203, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland, santtu.toivonen@vtt.fi

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XVII
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Description Logics are a well-known formalism used in artificial intelligence. We present an approach where a Description Logic is used as an intuitive modelling language. Unlike many other modelling methods, this provides a sound semantic basis for modelling. We indicate that the database implementation is effective and unambiguous, since there is a direct mapping between our formalism and dependencies in the relational model. We also give an example applying the method to the Semantic Web.