Granular Ontologies and Graphical In-Place Querying.
Jānis Bārzdiņš, Edgars Rencis, Agris Šostaks · 2013
Abstract. The data ontologies in a form of UML Class diagrams are discussed in this paper. We call the data ontology granular, if its corresponding instance diagrams (data) can be divided into separate parts called slices. A typical example of granular ontologies is process ontologies, where slices are run-time instances of these processes. Based on the notion of granularity a graphical inplace query language is presented in this paper. The proposed language is easy to use by domain experts that are not IT specialists. Besides that it has a very efficient (linear) execution time for answering queries.