An efficient light solver for querying the semantic web

  • Authors:
  • Vianney le Clément de Saint-Marcq;Yves Deville;Christine Solnon

  • Affiliations:
  • ICTEAM Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and Université de Lyon, LIRIS, CNRS UMR5205, Villeurbanne, France;ICTEAM Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;Université de Lyon, LIRIS, CNRS UMR5205, Villeurbanne, France

  • Venue:
  • CP'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Principles and practice of constraint programming
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The SemanticWeb aims at building cross-domain and distributed databases across the Internet. SPARQL is a standard query language for such databases. Evaluating such queries is however NP-hard. We model SPARQL queries in a declarative way, by means of CSPs. A CP operational semantics is proposed. It can be used for a direct implementation in existing CP solvers. To handle large databases, we introduce a specialized and efficient light solver, Castor. Benchmarks show the feasibility and efficiency of the approach.