Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases Third International Workshop,

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Semantics in Data and Knolwedge Bases, SDKB 2008, held in Nantes, France, on March 29, 2008. The 6 revised full papers presented together w

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Klaus-Dieter Schewe Bernhard Thalheim (Eds.)

Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases Third International Workshop, SDKB 2008 Nantes, France, March 29, 2008 Revised Selected Papers

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Volume Editors Klaus-Dieter Schewe Information Science Research Centre 20A Manapouri Cr, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] Bernhard Thalheim Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Olshausenstr. 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This volume comprises selected papers of the Third International Workshop on Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases, which was collacated with EDBT 2008 and was organized in Nantes on March 29, 2008. The first two workshops “Semantics in Databases” took place in Reˇz, Czech Republic in 1995 and Dagstuhl, Germany, 2001. The workshops have had post-proceedings of selected papers given at the workshop. We invited the best papers of the workshop to submit a revised version of the