For object-oriented databases we propose a new technique for optimizing queries containing method invocations. This technique is based on the definition of inverse methods and que...
Most declarative SQL-like query languagesfor object-oriented database systems (OOSQL) are orthogonal languages allowing for arbitrary nesting of expressions in the select-, from-,...
Hennie J. Steenhagen, Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. B...
In this paper, we present a simple yet efficient automatic system to translate biomedical terms. It mainly relies on a machine learning approach able to infer rewriting rules from...
In this paper we present methods to generate a Description Logic (DL) theory from a given First Order Logic (FOL) theory, such that each DL axiom is entailed by the given FOL theor...
This chapter considers, on the one hand, extensions of Description Logics by features not available in the basic framework, but considered important for using Description Logics a...