AN EXTENSION OF ONTOLOGY BASED DATABASES TO HANDLE PREFERENCES

Dilek Tapucu, Yamine Ait-Ameur, Stéphane Jean, Murat Osman Ünalir

2009

Abstract

Ontologies have been defined to make explicit the semantics of data. With the emergence of the SemanticWeb, the amount of ontological data (or instances) available has increased. To manage such data, Ontology Based DataBases (OBDBs), that store ontologies and their instance data in the same repository have been proposed. These databases are associated with exploitation languages supporting description, querying, etc. on both ontologies and data. However, usually queries return a big amount of data that may be sorted in order to find the relevant ones. Moreover, in the current, few approaches considering user preferences when querying have been developed. Yet this problem is fundamental for many applications especially in the e-commerce domain. In this paper, we first propose an extension of an existing OBDB, called OntoDB through extension of their ontology model in order to support semantic description of preferences. Secondly, an extension of an ontology based query language, called OntoQL defined on OntoDB for querying ontological data with preferences is presented. Finally, an implementation of the proposed extensions are described.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tapucu D., Ait-Ameur Y., Jean S. and Osman Ünalir M. (2009). AN EXTENSION OF ONTOLOGY BASED DATABASES TO HANDLE PREFERENCES . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-84-5, pages 208-213. DOI: 10.5220/0002010102080213

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Dilek Tapucu and Yamine Ait-Ameur and Stéphane Jean and Murat Osman Ünalir},
title={AN EXTENSION OF ONTOLOGY BASED DATABASES TO HANDLE PREFERENCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={208-213},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002010102080213},
isbn={978-989-8111-84-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - AN EXTENSION OF ONTOLOGY BASED DATABASES TO HANDLE PREFERENCES
SN - 978-989-8111-84-5
AU - Tapucu D.
AU - Ait-Ameur Y.
AU - Jean S.
AU - Osman Ünalir M.
PY - 2009
SP - 208
EP - 213
DO - 10.5220/0002010102080213