%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:798224 %A Pan, Zhengxiang %A Qasem, Abir %A Heflin, Jeff %B Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence %D 2006 %K semweb %T An Investigation into the Feasibility of the Semantic Web %X We investigate the challenges that must be addressed for the Semantic Web to become a feasible enterprise. Specifically we focus on the query answering capability of the Semantic Web. We put forward that two key challenges we face are heterogeneity and scalability. We propose a flexible and decentralized framework for addressing the heterogeneity problem and demonstrate that sufficient reasoning is possible over a large dataset by taking advantage of database technologies and making some tradeoff decisions. As a proof of concept, we collect a significant portion of the available Semantic Web data; use our framework to resolve some heterogeneity and reason over the data as one big knowledge base. In addition to demonstrating the feasibility of a "real" Semantic Web, our experiments have provided us with some interesting insights into how it is evolving and the type of queries that can be answered.

@article{citeulike:798224, abstract = {We investigate the challenges that must be addressed for the Semantic Web to become a feasible enterprise. Specifically we focus on the query answering capability of the Semantic Web. We put forward that two key challenges we face are heterogeneity and scalability. We propose a flexible and decentralized framework for addressing the heterogeneity problem and demonstrate that sufficient reasoning is possible over a large dataset by taking advantage of database technologies and making some tradeoff decisions. As a proof of concept, we collect a significant portion of the available Semantic Web data; use our framework to resolve some heterogeneity and reason over the data as one big knowledge base. In addition to demonstrating the feasibility of a "real" Semantic Web, our experiments have provided us with some interesting insights into how it is evolving and the type of queries that can be answered.}, added-at = {2007-04-06T10:50:16.000+0200}, author = {Pan, Zhengxiang and Qasem, Abir and Heflin, Jeff}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2cc1ae25c20129ddf8302ae3cabd67089/mhermans}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, citeulike-article-id = {798224}, interhash = {cf9c2ca996a04a6a6ad191483f7f6c1c}, intrahash = {cc1ae25c20129ddf8302ae3cabd67089}, keywords = {semweb}, month = {July}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2007-04-06T10:50:16.000+0200}, title = {An Investigation into the Feasibility of the Semantic Web}, year = 2006 }