Knowledge Representation meets DataBases for the sake of ontology-based data management

• Main Author: Goasdoué, François
• Language: ENG
• Published: Université Paris Sud - Paris XI 2012
• Subjects: [INFO:INFO_DB] Computer Science/Databases; [INFO:INFO_AI] Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence; Bases de données; Représentation des connaissances et raisonnement; Logiques de description; Intégration d'information; Web Sémantique
• Online Access: http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00759274; http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/75/92/74/PDF/hdr.pdf

This Habilitation thesis outlines my research activities carried out as an Associate Professor at Univ. Paris-Sud and Inria Saclay Île-de-France. During this period, from 2003 to early 2012, my work was - and still is - at the interface between Knowledge Representation and Databases. I have mainly focused on ontology-based data management using the Semantic Web data models promoted by W3C: the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). In particular, my work has covered (i) the design, (ii) the optimization, and (iii) the decentralization of ontology-based data management techniques in these data models. This thesis briefly reports on the results obtained along these lines of research.