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Onto VQL : Ontology Visual Query Language

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Onto VQL : Ontology Visual Query Language

Fadhil, Amineh (2008) Onto VQL : Ontology Visual Query Language. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Applying visual techniques to access data has been a successful way of abstracting and simplifying the complexity of the operation to a user not versed in the technical domain. Visual querying systems have been developed to represent a database schema and to visually query its content. Similar effort has been done for visually representing the knowledge in an ontology. Since ontologies are gaining ground into playing an important role in representing knowledge of multidisciplinary domains, there grows the need for a simple way to query ontologies. This thesis presents OntoVQL, a formal visual query language that allows to query OWL ontologies. OntoVQL hides the complexity of an OWL query language by abstracting the query as a graph that can be broken and reassembled and is designed to formulate more than simple queries with the and/or constructors. OntoVQI, a visual querying interface is introduced as the prototype that has been implemented to effectively formulate queries in OntoVQL and to view their results. This prototype facilitates query formulation by providing features such as query preview.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Fadhil, Amineh
Pagination:xi, 124 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M. Comp. Sc.
Program:Computer Science and Software Engineering
Date:2008
Thesis Supervisor(s):Haarslev, Volker
Identification Number:LE 3 C66C67M 2008 F33
ID Code:976068
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:22 Jan 2013 16:19
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 20:09
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