Relational.OWL: a data and schema representation format based on OWL
Cristian Pérez de Laborda, Stefan Conrad · 2005
One of the research fields which has recently gained much scientific interest within the database community are Peer-to-Peer databases, where peers have the autonomy to decide whether to join or to leave an information sharing environment at any time. Such volatile data nodes may appear shortly, collect or deliver some data, and disappear again. It even can not be assured that a peer joins the network ever again.