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Ever increasing capacities of contemporary storage devices inspire the vision to accumulate (personal) information without the need of deleting old data over a long time-span. Hence the target of the SemanticLIFE project is to create a Personal Information Management system for a human lifetime data. One of the most important characteristics of the system is its dedication to retrieve information in a very efficient way. By adopting user demands regarding the reduction of ambiguities, our approach aims at a user-oriented and yet powerful enough system with a satisfactory query performance. In this paper, we introduce the query system of SemanticLIFE, the Virtual Query System, which uses emerging Semantic Web technologies to fulfill users’ requirements.
This work has been generously supported by ASEA-UNINET and the Austrian National Bank within the framework of the project Application of Semantic-Web-Concepts for Business Intelligence Information Systems – Project No. 11284.
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_109.
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Hoang, H.H., Andjomshoaa, A., Tjoa, A.M. (2006). VQS – An Ontology-Based Query System for the SemanticLIFE Digital Memory Project. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_86
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