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KRDB Home

Innovative Application Programming
and
Query Interfaces




Proceedings of the 5th Workshop KRDB-98
Seattle, WA, USA, May 31, 1998.

Edited by

Alex Borgida *
Vinay Chaudhri #
Martin Staudt +

* Rutgers University, Dept. of Computer Science, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA
# SRI International, AI Center, 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
+ Swiss Life, Information Systems Research, P.O.Box, 8022 Zurich, Switzerland


KRDB-98 is held in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-98).
The workshop is co-sponsored by Air Force Research (Rome) Laboratory and Swiss Life.
A hard copy of these proceedings is available as Swiss Life Technical Report on demand.



Table of Contents

  1. Sophia: Providing Basic Knowledge Services with a Common DBMS
    N.F. Abernethy, R.B. Altman
  2. Knowledge Bus: Generating Application-focused Databases from Large Ontologies
    B. Peterson, W.A. Andersen, J. Engel
  3. Intelligent Caching for Information Mediators: A KR Based Approach
    N. Ashish, C.A. Knoblock, C. Shahabi
  4. Hypothetical database temporal reasoning with history encoding
    M. Arenas, L. Bertossi
  5. On Extending a Semantic Data Model with Some Aspects
    M. Boufaida, Z. Bouriche-Boufaida
  6. The Interactive Databases Approach to the User Interface Modeling
    E. Bugaenko
  7. Bottom-up Integration of Ontologies in a Database Context
    J.-C.R. Pazzaglia, S.M. Ernbury
  8. Automatic Generation of a Warehouse Mediators Using an Ontology Engine
    T. Critchlow, M. Ganesh and R. Musick
  9. On Domain-Specific Declarative Knowledge Representationand Database Languages
    S. Decker
  10. Reasoning About Web-Site Structure
    M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, A. Levy, D. Suciu
  11. Practical Problems in Coupling Deductive Engines with Relational Databases
    J. Freire
  12. Organizing Knowledge of a Federated Database System to Support Multiple View Generation
    D.D. Karunaratna, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian
  13. A Metadata Repository API
    P. Martin, W. Powley, P. Zion
  14. Semantic Query Optimization and Rule Graphs
    J. Robinson, B. Lowden
  15. Deductive Data Mining: Uncertainty Measures for Banding the Search Space
    L. Russell
  16. Databases for Semistructured data: How Useful Are They?
    L. Seligman, K. Smith, I. Mani, B. Gates
  17. Role-based Semantics for Conceptual-Level Queries
    D. Silberberg and R.D. Semmel
  18. Knowledge-Intensive Query Processing
    B. Starr, V. Chaudhri, A. Farquhar, R. Waldinger
  19. Evaluating Answer Quality/Efficiency Tradeoffs
    U. Cetintemel, B.T. Jonsson, M.J. Franklin, C.L. Giles, D. Srivastava
submitted by M. Staudt, May, 15, 1998