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A Comparison of Algorithms to Construct Ontologies from Relational Databases

Authors:
Sameen Fatima
Quratulain Rajput

Keywords: Ontology; Relational database; Mapping rules

Abstract:
Relational databases (RDB) play a vital role in managing the organization’s data but they are dependent on autonomous hardware and software and thus create a problem of data integration. On the other hand Ontologies are considered as one of the most popular solutions in knowledge representation as a universal language to share and integrate knowledge. To overcome the integration problem in database and to realize the vision of semantic web, data has to publish over a web as ontologies. The purpose of this research is to explore algorithms to construct ontologies automatically from relational databases. A comparison is made on the basis of degree of automation and accuracy to transform relational database into ontology. Finally, assessing the strength and weakness of each algorithm and explore the future research directions.

Pages: 232 to 237

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012