Incrementally Maintaining Materializations of Ontologies Stored in Logic Databases.

This article presents a technique to incrementally maintain materializations of ontological entailments. Materialization consists in precomputing and storing a set of implicit entailments, such that frequent and/or crucial queries to the ontology can be solved more efficiently. The central problem t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Volz, R, Staab, S, Motik, B
Other Authors: Spaccapietra, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2005