Ontologies and Databases: myths and challenges

Summary: Ontology as logical constraints over database instances, serving as a conceptual model and set of dependencies. Through a real-world tool and data-access scenarios, it shows how a logic-based ontology mediates user needs and data in modern DB systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9795
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,405 | 13.71%
DOI: -

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1. Enrico Franconi

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2,034	Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting	2005	PODS	9.7156155e-05
2,536	Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics	1997	PODS	8.5837937e-05

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