On a declarative semantics for web queries

Rainer Himmeröder, Georg Lausen, Bertram Ludäscher, Christian Schlepphorst

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Abstract

With the increasing importance of the World Wide Web as an information source, there is a growing interest for integration of Web and database technology. Several Web query languages have been presented to overcome the shortcomings of conventional search engines, most of them lacking a formal semantics. In this paper, we propose F-logic as a means to explore, query and restructure Web information, and to integrate it with a local database. Two major advantages of this approach are its declarative semantics, based on the semantics of F-logic, and the rich modeling capabilities which make F-logic particularly suitable to handle heterogeneous data. The presented semantics directly yields a bottom-up evaluation algorithm that can be easily incorporated into the existing F-logic prototype FLORID.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDeductive and Object-Oriented Databases - 5th International Conference, DOOD 1997, Proceedings
EditorsFrancois Bry, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
PublisherSpringer
Pages386-398
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3540637923, 9783540637929
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, DOOD 1997 - Montreux, Switzerland
Duration: Dec 8 1997Dec 12 1997

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1341
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other5th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, DOOD 1997
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityMontreux
Period12/8/9712/12/97

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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