Title: View-OD: a view model for ontology-based databases

Authors: Chahinez Bachtarzi; Fouzia Benchikha

Addresses: Lire Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University Mentouri of Constantine, Route de Ain-El Bey, 25000, Constantine, Algeria ' LIRE Laboratory, University Mentouri of Constantine, Route de Ain-El Bey, 25000, Constantine, Algeria

Abstract: A new tendency for the conception of databases consists of storing in the same repository data and the ontology which indexes them by their semantics. These ontology-based databases (OBDB) systems offer a unique vision to exploit both ontological concepts and their extensions. However, users' applications need to have different and personalised views on the stored ontology and the integration of an appropriate view mechanism is required. In this paper, we propose to extend the traditional OBDB model to support multiple descriptions of the ontological data under customised view ontologies. These views consist of meaningful portions of the main ontology that can be restructured. We first present an approach using viewpoints to provide extensive descriptions of concepts which operate on the views to offer customised visions on them. Then we give the formalisation of the underlying model which allows multiple modelling of the ontological data. Specifications and implementation issues are also presented.

Keywords: ontology based models; view mechanism; ontology design; viewpoints; ontology databases; semantics; customised views; multiple modelling; ontological data.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2013.056309

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2013 Vol.7 No.4, pp.295 - 323

Received: 09 Jan 2012
Accepted: 08 Nov 2012
Published online: 31 Mar 2014 *

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