Mapping fuzzy RDF(S) into fuzzy object‐oriented databases

Abstract

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS), being a recommendation of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), have been widely used to exchange and reason information about resources on the web. It is a common case that information about resources may be uncertain under an environment of open web. To deal with uncertainties in resource information, we propose, in this paper, a general fuzzy RDF(S) model, which contains a fuzzy RDFS layer and a fuzzy RDF layer. In particular, we investigate how to formally map the fuzzy RDF(S) model to the fuzzy object-oriented database model in the paper. We develop mapping rules and implement a prototype system to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.