Foundations of Semantic Web databases

  • Authors:
  • Claudio Gutierrez;Carlos A. Hurtado;Alberto O. Mendelzon;Jorge Pérez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile;Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile;-;Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The Semantic Web is based on the idea of a common and minimal language to enable large quantities of existing data to be analyzed and processed. This triggers the need to develop the database foundations of this basic language, which is the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This paper addresses this challenge by: 1) developing an abstract model and query language suitable to formalize and prove properties about the RDF data and query language; 2) studying the RDF data model, minimal and maximal representations, as well as normal forms; 3) studying systematically the complexity of entailment in the model, and proving complexity bounds for the main problems; 4) studying the notions of query answering and containment arising in the RDF data model; and 5) proving complexity bounds for query answering and query containment.