WebOWL: A Semantic Web search engine development experiment

Authors:
Alexandros Batzios;Pericles A. Mitkas
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents WebOWL, an experiment in using the latest technologies to develop a Semantic Web search engine. WebOWL consists of a community of intelligent agents, acting as crawlers, that are able to discover and learn the locations of Semantic Web neighborhoods on the Web, a semantic database to store data from different ontologies, a query mechanism that supports semantic queries in OWL, and a ranking algorithm that determines the order of the returned results based on the semantic relationships of classes and individuals. The system has been implemented using Jade, Jena and the db4o object database engine and has successfully stored over one million OWL classes, individuals and properties.