Data-Sharing P2P Networks with Semantic Approximation Capabilities

The synergy between peer-to-peer systems and semantic Web technologies supports large-scale sharing of semantically rich data, usually represented through schemas such as RDF. Peers rarely share the same vocabulary, so the resulting heterogeneity of data representations introduces new challenges for the efficient and effective retrieval of relevant information. The authors leverage the presence of semantic approximations between peers' schemas to improve query routing by identifying the peers that best satisfy the user's requests, and to inform users of the relevance of the returned answers through a ranking mechanism that promotes the most semantically related results.     

一种基于对等语义连接网络的路由查询

对等网络（简称P2P）的非集中结构、良好的自治性及容错性等特征,使其成为Internet上有效的信息共享模型。提出一种非结构化对等语义连接网络（NSPSLN）指定和管理在节点数据框架之间的语义关系,从而实现一个基于节点类似于有效路由查询的测量尺度,再形成和不同种类数据的综合模式映射算法。通过研究,为分布式资源提供一种新的方法,并加速知识产生在合作的研究过程中的繁殖、熔化和管理的过程。     

Schema mapping and query translation in heterogeneous P2P XML databases

Peers in a peer-to-peer data management system often have heterogeneous schemas and no mediated global schema. To translate queries across peers, we assume each peer provides correspondences between its schema and a small number of other peer schemas. We focus on query reformulation in the presence of heterogeneous XML schemas, including data–metadata conflicts. We develop an algorithm for inferring precise mapping rules from informal schema correspondences. We define the semantics of query answering in this setting and develop query translation algorithm. Our translation handles an expressive fragment of XQuery and works both along and against the direction of mapping rules. We describe the HePToX heterogeneous P2P XML data management system which incorporates our results. We report the results of extensive experiments on HePToX on both synthetic and real datasets. We demonstrate our system utility and scalability on different P2P distributions.     

基于本体的关系数据集成的查询处理

为实现异构关系数据库的语义集成,针对传统集成技术存在的问题,在对语义网等相关技术进行分析的基础上,研究基于本体的关系数据集成系统中的查询处理问题,提出了一种基于本体的关系数据库集成框架。设计了基于本体的关系数据的描述方法,使用本体作为集成的全局模式来描述关系模式的语义。设计了查询重写算法,该算法可以将基于全局模式的SPARQL查询重写为针对具体关系数据库的查询,从而实现对异构关系数据库的集成。实验表明,该算法具有良好的可扩展性。     

XML application schema matching using similarity measure and relaxation labeling

Information integration for distributed and heterogeneous data sources is still an open challenging, and schema matching is critical in this process. This paper presents an approach to automatic elements matching between XML application schemas using similarity measure and relaxation labeling. The semantic modeling of XML application schema has also been presented. The similarity measure method considers element categories and their properties. In an effort to achieve an optimal matching, contextual constraints are used in the relaxation labeling method. Based on the semantic modeling of XML application schemas, the compatible constraint coefficients are devised in terms of the structures and semantic relationships as defined in the semantic model. To examine the effectiveness of the proposed methods, an algorithm for XML schema matching has been developed, and corresponding computational experiments show that the proposed approach has a high degree of accuracy.     

The Piazza peer data management system

Intuitively, data management and data integration tools are well-suited for exchanging information in a semantically meaningful way. Unfortunately, they suffer from two significant problems: They typically require a comprehensive schema design before they can be used to store or share information and they are difficult to extend because schema evolution is heavyweight and may break backward compatibility. As a result, many small-scale data sharing tasks are more easily facilitated by nondatabase-oriented tools that have little support for semantics. The goal of the peer data management system (PDMS) is to address this need: We propose the use of a decentralized, easily extensible data management architecture in which any user can contribute new data, schema information, or even mappings between other peers' schemes. PDMSs represent a natural step beyond data integration systems, replacing their single logical schema with an interlinked collection of semantic mappings between peers' individual schemas. This paper describes-several aspects of the Piazza PDMS, including the schema mediation formalism, query answering and optimization algorithms, and the relevance of PDMSs to the semantic Web.     

自治异构数据源聚集模型与算法研究

自治异构数据源信息共享的主要问题是如何在P2P环境下对自治数据节点的信息进行统一访问.采用分层结构组织数据源节点能够提高查询效率,减小计算开销,但需要节点根据彼此相似度实现局部的聚类.给出了数据源节点信息发布的形式化描述,提出了基于模式元素匹配的自治异构数据源多重聚集模型以及聚类组织构建过程,采用TA算法解决top-K聚类节点搜索问题,并在此基础上提出TAL算法.实验结果表明,TA和TAL算法能够高效地解决节点聚类排序的问题,特别是TAL算法在聚类节点范围较大时计算性能优于TA.     

A Discovery-Based Approach to Database Ontology Design

In this paper, we introduce an approach to task-driven ontology design which is based on information discovery from database schemas. Techniques for semi-automatically discovering terms and relationships used in the information space, denoting concepts, their properties and links are proposed, which are applied in two stages. At the first stage, the focus is on the discovery of heterogeneity/ambiguity of data representations in different schemas. For this purpose, schema elements are compared according to defined comparison features and similarity coefficients are evaluated. This stage produces a set of candidates for unification into ontology concepts. At the second stage, decisions are made on which candidates to unify into concepts and on how to relate concepts by semantic links. Ontology concepts and links can be accessed according to different perspectives, so that the ontology can serve different purposes, such as, providing a search space for powerful mechanisms for concept location, setting a basis for query formulation and processing, and establishing a reference for recognizing terminological relationships between elements in different schemas.     

Integrity constraint integration in heterogeneous databases: An enhanced methodology for schema integration

In today's technologically diverse corporate environment, it is common to find several different databases being used to accomplish the organization's operational data management functions. Providing interoperability among these databases is important to the successful operation of the organization. One approach to providing interoperability among heterogeneous database systems, is to define one or more schemas which represent a coherent view of the underlying databases. In the past, most approaches have used schematic knowledge about the underlying databases to generate integrated representations of the databases. In this paper we present a seven step methodology for utilizing integrity constraint knowledge from heterogeneous databases. Specifically, we describe how we can generate a set of integrity constraints applicable at the integrated level from constraints specified on local databases. We introduce the concept of constraint-based relationships between objects in heterogeneous databases and describe the role that these relationships play in integrity constraint integration. Finally, we describe how the integrated set of constraints generated using our methodology can be used to facilitate semantic query processing in a heterogeneous database environment.     

Organisation and management of shared documents in super-peer networks based semantic hierarchical cluster trees

A super-peer semantic network defines the semantic groups that client peers and their super peers use to connect with each other according to the semantic similarity of shared documents in peers. This will result in a query that can be evaluated locally thus reducing query process time and the amount of communication required to obtain related data. In this study, new algorithms are proposed to arrange shared documents in peers into hierarchical cluster tree structures, and links will be set up to connect semantically related super peers. During query evaluation, only related peers will be searched thus the complexity of computing is significantly reduced. Consideration is also given to automatically deciding the threshold for clustering and the construction and other essential operations for hierarchical cluster trees. The experiment results illustrate the features of the approach developed in this study.     

Mapping the semantics of Web text and links

Search engines use content and links to search, rank, cluster, and classify Web pages. These information discovery applications use similarity measures derived from this data to estimate relatedness between pages. However, little research exists on the relationships between similarity measures or between such measures and semantic similarity. The author analyzes and visualizes similarity relationships in massive Web data sets to identify how to integrate content and link analysis for approximating relevance. He uses human-generated metadata from Web directories to estimate semantic similarity and semantic maps to visualize relationships between content and link cues and what these cues suggest about page meaning. Highly heterogeneous topical maps point to a critical dependence on search context.     

GridVine: An Infrastructure for Peer Information Management

GridVine is a semantic overlay infrastructure based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer - in which data, schemas, and schema mappings are managed - from a physical layer consisting of a structured P2P network supporting decentralized indexing, key load-balancing, and efficient routing. The system is decentralized, yet fosters semantic interoperability through pair-wise schema mappings and query reformulation. GridVine's heterogeneous but semantically related information sources can be queried transparently using iterative query reformulation. The authors discuss a reference implementation of the system and several mechanisms for resolving queries collaboratively.     

Building and querying e-catalog networks using P2P and data summarisation techniques

One of the critical issues in Web-based e-commerce has been how to efficiently and effectively integrate and query heterogeneous, diverse e-catalogs. We propose an integration framework for building and querying catalogs. Our approach is based on a hybrid of peer-to-peer data sharing paradigm and Web-services architecture. Peers in our system serve as domain-specific data integration mediators. Links between peers are established based on the similarity of the domain they represent. The relationships are used for routing queries among peers. As the number of catalogs involved grow larger, the need for filtering irrelevant data sources will become increasingly high. We apply a summarisation technique to summarise the content of catalogs. The summaries are used to pre-selecting data sources that are relevant to a user query. We use terms e-catalog and catalog interchangeably.     

基于OWL本体论映射的数据库网格语义模式集成研究

本文提出了一种在数据库网格中OWL本体论映射机制如何用于基于语义的数据库模式集成。方法是首先把关系模式转化为RDF/OWL语义描述以完成局部映射,再通过把局部数据语义与全局共享本体建立联系来完成全局映射。本质是把异构数据库模式的语义通过本体显性地表达出来,并在语义Web层完成模式的集成。特点是实现了在统一的语义层次上进行共享与查询,同时采用了局部映射与全局映射松耦合的构架,其特有的分层结构使得在跨库/单库环境中进行语义查询变得更加灵活。     

基于移动agent的无结构P2P网络拓扑重连方法研究

为了提高无结构P2P网络中资源查找的效率,同时避免在资源查找过程中出现拥塞,提出了一种基于移动agent的网络拓扑重连方法。网络节点定期进行拓扑重连,同时通过收集其邻居节点的处理能力以及连通性等信息,指导移动agent有目的地在网络迁移,从而使移动agent及时发现网络节点上的拥塞,并使用拓扑优化机制降低节点上的负载。实验证明该方法能优化网络的拓扑结构,避免网络查询过程中发生拥塞,提高资源查找的效率,同时适应网络查询负载的动态变化。     

An Object Algebra Approach to Multidatabase Query Decomposition in Donají

This paper presents an approach to query decomposition in a multidatabase environment. The unique aspect of this approach is that it is based on performing transformations over an object algebra that can be used as the basis for a global query language. In the paper, we first present our multidatabase environment and semantic framework, where a global conceptual schema based on the Object Data Management Group standard encompasses the information from heterogeneous data sources that include relational databases as well as object-oriented databases and flat file sources. The meta-data about the global schema is enhanced with information about virtual classes as well as virtual relationships and inheritance hierarchies that exist between multiple sources. The AQUA object algebra is used as the formal foundation for manipulation of the query expression over the multidatabase. AQUA is enhanced with distribution operators for dealing with data distribution issues. During query decomposition we perform an extensive analysis of traversals for path expressions that involve virtual relationships and hierarchies for access to several heterogeneous sources. The distribution operators defined in algebraic terms enhance the global algebra expression with semantic information about the structure, distribution, and localization of the data sources relevant to the solution of the query. By using an object algebra as the basis for query processing, we are able to define algebraic transformations and exploit rewriting techniques during the decomposition phase. Our use of an object algebra also provides a formal and uniform representation for dealing with an object-oriented approach to multidatabase query processing. As part of our query processing discussion, we include an overview of a global object identification approach for relating semantically equivalent objects from diverse data sources, illustrating how knowledge about global object identity is used in the decomposition and assembly processes.     

Object-oriented query language access to relational databases: A semantic framework for query translation

This research investigates and approach to query processing in a multidatabase system that uses an objectoriented model to capture the semantics of other data models. The object-oriented model is used to construct a global schema, defining an integrated view of the different schemas in the environment. The model is also used as a self-describing model to build a meta-database for storing information about the global schema. A unique aspect of this work is that the object-oriented model is used to describe the different data models of the multidatabase environment, thereby extending the meta database with semantic information about the local schemas. With the global and local schemas all represented in an object-oriented form, structural mappings between the global schema and each local schema are then easily supported. An object algebra then provides a query language for expressing global queries, using the structural mappings to translate object algebra queries into SQL queries over local relational schema. The advantage of using an object algebra is that the object-oriented database can be viewed as a blackboard for temporary storage of local data and for establishing relationships between different databases. The object algebra can be used to directly retrieve temporarily-stored data from the object-oriented database or to transparently retrieve data from local sources using the translation process described in this paper.     

一种有效的贪婪模式匹配算法

模式匹配问题是意图获得两个模式中所包含个体对象之间的语义匹配和映射,其结果表示源模式的个体对象与目标模式的个体对象之间存在特定的语义关联.它在数据库应用领域起到关键性的作用,例如数据集成、电子商务、数据仓库、XML消息交换等,特别地,它已成为元数据管理的基本问题.然而,模式匹配很大程度上依赖人工的操作,是一个费时费力的过程.模式匹配问题可以归约为一个组合优化问题:多标记图匹配问题.首先,将模式表示为多标记图,将模式匹配转换为多标记图匹配问题.其次,提出多标记图的相似性度量方法,进而提出基于多标记图相似性的模式匹配目标优化函数.最后,在这个目标函数基础上设计实现了一个贪婪匹配算法,其最显著的特点是综合多种可用的标记信息,灵活准确地获得最优的匹配结果.     

Top-<Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis> coupled keyword recommendation for relational keyword queries

Providing top-k typical relevant keyword queries would benefit the users who cannot formulate appropriate queries to express their imprecise query intentions. By extracting the semantic relationships both between keywords and keyword queries, this paper proposes a new keyword query suggestion approach which can provide typical and semantically related queries to the given query. Firstly, a keyword coupling relationship measure, which considers both intra- and inter-couplings between each pair of keywords, is proposed. Then, the semantic similarity of different keyword queries can be measured by using a semantic matrix, in which the coupling relationships between keywords in queries are reserved. Based on the query semantic similarities, we next propose an approximation algorithm to find the most typical queries from query history by using the probability density estimation method. Lastly, a threshold-based top-k query selection method is proposed to expeditiously evaluate the top-k typical relevant queries. We demonstrate that our keyword coupling relationship and query semantic similarity measures can capture the coupling relationships between keywords and semantic similarities between keyword queries accurately. The efficiency of query typicality analysis and top-k query selection algorithm is also demonstrated.     

非结构化对等计算系统中多维范围搜索

对等计算数据管理中的一个重要问题是如何有效地支持多维数据空间上的相似性搜索.现有的非结构化对等计算数据共享系统仅支持简单的查询处理方法,即匹配查询处理.将近似技术和路由索引结合在一起,设计了一种简单、有效的索引结构EVARI(扩展近似向量路由索引).利用EVARI,每个节点不仅可以在本地共享的数据集上处理范围查询,而且还可以将查询转发给最有希望获得查询结果的邻居节点.为了建立EVARI,每个节点使用空间划分技术概括本地的共享内容,并与邻居节点交换概要信息.而且,每个节点都可以重新配置自己的邻居节点,使得相关节点位置相互邻近,优化了系统资源配置,提升了系统性能.仿真实验证明了该方法的良好性能.