IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

The Semantic Web has become a dynamic and enormous network of typed links between data sets stored on different machines. These data sets are machine readable and unambiguously interpretable, thanks to their underlying standard representation languages. The expressiveness and flexibility of the publication model of Linked Data has led to its widespread adoption and an ever increasing publication o... View full abstract»

Scalable, adaptive and robust approaches to store and analyze the massive amounts of data expected from Semantic Web applications are needed to bring the Web of Data to its full potential. The solution at hand is to distribute both data and requests onto multiple computers. Apart from storage, the annotation of data with machine-processable semantics is essential for realizing the vision of the Se... View full abstract»

The Semantic Web movement has led to the publication of thousands of ontologies online. These ontologies present and mediate information and knowledge on the Semantic Web. How to provide tractable reasoning services for fuzzy and crisp ontologies has been a pressing research problem over the last five years. In this paper, we present a reusable semantic infrastructure that comprises a tractable re... View full abstract»

The MapReduce framework has proved to be very efficient for data-intensive tasks. Earlier work has successfully applied MapReduce for large scale RDFS/OWL reasoning. In this paper, we move a step forward by considering scalable reasoning on semantic data under fuzzy pD* semantics (i.e., an extension of OWL pD* semantics with fuzzy vagueness). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to... View full abstract»