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O-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base System for OWL Ontologies

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This paper reports on the implementation of a rule system, called O-DEVICE, for reasoning about OWL instances using deductive rules. O-DEVICE exploits the rule language of the CLIPS production rule system and transforms OWL ontologies into an object-oriented schema of COOL. During the transformation procedure, OWL classes are mapped to COOL classes, OWL properties to class slots and OWL instances to COOL objects. The purpose of this transformation is twofold: a) to exploit the advantages of the object-oriented representation and access all the properties of instances in one step, since properties are encapsulated inside resource objects; b) to be able to use a deductive object-oriented rule language for querying and creating maintainable views of OWL instances, which operates over the object-oriented schema of CLIPS, and c) to answer queries faster, since the implied relationships due to the rich OWL semantics have been pre-computed. The deductive rules are compiled into CLIPS production rules. The rich open-world semantics of OWL are partly handled by the incremental transformation procedure and partly by the rule compilation procedure.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Georgios Meditskos & Nick Bassiliades

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  1. Computer Science Department of University of Crete, Greece

    Grigoris Antoniou

  2. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    George Potamias

  3. Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", 15310 A., Paraskevi Attikis, Greece

    Costas Spyropoulos

  4. Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Dimitris Plexousakis

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Meditskos, G., Bassiliades, N. (2006). O-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base System for OWL Ontologies. In: Antoniou, G., Potamias, G., Spyropoulos, C., Plexousakis, D. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SETN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752912_27

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