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Reasoning about Structured Objects:
Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB '95)

Working Notes of the 2nd Workshop KRDB-95
Bielefeld, Germany, September 11-12, 1995.

Franz Baader *
Martin Buchheit +
Manfred A. Jeusfeld #
Werner Nutt +

Table of Contents

Welcome

• Overview
  F. Baader, M. Buchheit, M.A. Jeusfeld, W. Nutt

Session 1: Extending Knowledge Representation by Database Techniques

• Querying Databases from Description Logics
  P. Bresciani (IRST Povo)
• Using a Knowledge Representation Language to Capture both Knowledge and Routine Data
  A. E. James, R. A. Gatward, S. Shipley (Coventry University)
• An Object Layer on a Relational Database more Attractive than an Object Database ?
  F. Lebastard (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
• Terminological Reasoning by Query Evaluation: A Formal Mapping of a Terminological Logic to an Object Data Model
  U. Reimer, P. Lippuner (Swiss Life), M. Norrie, M. Rys (ETH Zürich)

Session 2: Extending Databases by Knowledge Representation Techniques

• Use of DL within the Framework of DBMS
  T. Kessel, F. Rousselot, M. Schlick, O. Stern (LIIA ERIC ENSAIS Strasbourg)
• The P-type Model : From Databases to Knowledge Bases
  A. Simonet, M. Simonet (Universite Joseph Fourier, La Tronche Cedex)
• Increasing the Power of Structured Objects
  D. Calvanese, G. De Giacomo, M. Lenzerini (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza")
• Knowledge Representation Concepts Supporting Business Process Analysis
  H. W. Nissen (RWTH Aachen), G. V. Zemanek (USU Softwarehaus Möglingen)

Session 3: Queries

• DL Techniques for Intensional Query Answering in OODBs
  S. Bergamaschi, C. Sartori, M. Vincini (CIOC-CNR Bologna)
• Using Schema Information for Querying Databases
  I. Savnik (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana), Z. Tari (Queensland University of Technology), T. Mohoric (University of Ljubljana)
• The Use of Description Logics as Database Query Languages
  K. Schild (Daimler-Benz AG, Berlin)

Session 4: Interoperability

• Knowledge in Interoperable and Evolutionary Systems
  N. Boudjlida (CRIN LORIA, Vandoeuvre)
• Packaging Knowledge into Metaobjects
  D. Edmond, M. Papazoglou, N. Russell, Z. Tari (Queensland University of Technology)
• Supporting Autonomy for Information Systems in a Changing Environment
  J. Kusch, G. Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)