Database and Information Systems Group: Projects

• The MARS (Modular Active Rules for the Semantic Web) Infrastructure Framework
  and the SWAN (Semantic Web Active Node) Node Architecture,
  part of WG I5 of
  
  EU FP6 NoE "REWERSE" (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics) (2004-2008)

• DL+Florid: Hybrid Reasoning with DL and F-Logic (2006-...).

• OWLQ: A language and ontology for stating conjunctive queries against OWL data (2007-...).

• Information Integration from the Web (1997-...)

• Referential Integrity in Databases

• Development of an information system at the health protection section at Volkswagenwerk Kassel/Baunatal (external PhD thesis)

• The geographic database MONDIAL (in F-Logic, Datalog, Oracle, XML and RDF/OWL format) built by information extraction and integration from the Web (1998-2000, completed and ongoing as a case-study for XML and RDF).

Completed Projects

• LoPiX (Logic Programming in XML): An implementation of the declarative XML data manipulation language XPathLog (2000-2003), used for XML data integration.

• LinXIS (Linked XML Information Sources): Database aspects of linked XML instances (2001-2008).