Reformulation-based query answering in RDF: alternatives and performance

Summary: Explores reformulation-based RDF query answering, contrasting it with saturation-based methods. Presents a large set of Ref techniques and demonstrates a cost-based Ref approach to avoid reformulation pitfalls, via an interactive testbed. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11074
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 4.3254416e-05
Overall Rank: 9,568 | 33.44%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,738	Stylus: A Strongly-Typed Store for Serving Massive RDF Data	2018	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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1,959	Building an Efficient RDF Store Over a Relational Database	2013	SIGMOD	9.9563798e-05

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