Data Management and Query Processing in Semantic Web Databases

• Main Author: Groppe, Sven (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

The Semantic Web, which is intended to establish a machine-understandable Web, is currently changing from being an emerging trend to a technology used in complex real-world applications. A number of standards and techniques have been developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), e.g., the Resour...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Semantic Web
• External Sorting and B+-Trees
• Query Processing Overview
• Logical Optimization
• Physical Optimization
• Streams
• Parallel Databases
• Inference
• Visual Query Languages
• Embedded Languages
• Comparson of the XML and Semantic Web Worlds
• Summary, Conclusions and Future Work.