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Cowl: A Lightweight OWL Library for the Semantic Web of Everything

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Current Trends in Web Engineering (ICWE 2022)

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Abstract

The Semantic Web of Everything, a blend of the emerging Internet of Everything and well-established Semantic Web paradigms, demands efficient cross-platform knowledge management technologies and tools, able to span the wide variety of devices it aims to support. This paper presents Cowl, a C library for processing Web Ontology Language (OWL) 2 ontologies, designed for strict portability and efficiency constraints. Its architecture is described and main optimization strategies are outlined. Results of a preliminary experimental campaign validate its effectiveness by comparing it with other state-of-the-art OWL toolkits.

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    Eclipse Public License - v2.0: https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/.

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    Apache Jena project: https://jena.apache.org/.

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    Cowl home: http://swot.sisinflab.poliba.it/cowl.

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    uLib repository: https://github.com/IvanoBilenchi/ulib.

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    Cowl data model: http://swot.sisinflab.poliba.it/cowl/api/owl.

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    Flex home: https://www.gnu.org/software/flex.

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    Bison home: https://www.gnu.org/software/bison.

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    Apple M1 Max System-on-Chip with 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, macOS Monterey 12.3.

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    ORE2014 corpus: http://dl.kr.org/ore2014.

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    getrusage man page: https://linux.die.net/man/2/getrusage.

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    Arduino home: https://www.arduino.cc.

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    Pixhawk home: https://pixhawk.org.

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This work has been supported by project TEBAKA (TErritorial BAsic Knowledge Acquisition), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.

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    Ivano Bilenchi, Floriano Scioscia & Michele Ruta

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Bilenchi, I., Scioscia, F., Ruta, M. (2023). Cowl: A Lightweight OWL Library for the Semantic Web of Everything. In: Agapito, G., et al. Current Trends in Web Engineering. ICWE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1668. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25380-5_8

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