Download or read book Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases written by Vassilis Christophides and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the joint International Workshops on Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases, SWDB-ODBIS 2007, co-located with the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2007. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully selected from 11 submissions. Among the topics addressed are semantics-aware data models and query languages; ontology-based views, mapping, transformations, and query reformulation; and storing and indexing semantic Web data and schemas.