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On the Synthetic Generation of Semantic Web Schemas

Yannis Theoharis1, 2 Contact Information, George GeorgakopoulosContact Information and Vassilis Christophides1, 2 Contact Information

(1)  Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, P.O.Box 1385, GR 71110 Heraklion, Greece
(2)  Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, P.O.Box 2208, GR 71409 Heraklion, Greece
Abstract
In order to cope with the expected size of the Semantic Web (SW) in the coming years, we need to benchmark existing SW tools (e.g., query language interpreters) in a credible manner. In this paper we present the first RDFS schema generator, termed PoweRGen, which takes into account the morphological features that schemas frequently exhibit in reality. In particular, we are interested in generating synthetically the two core components of an RDFS schema, namely the property (relationships between classes or attributes) and the subsumption (subsumption relationships among classes) graph. The total-degree distribution of the former, as well as the out-degree distribution of the Transitive Closure (TC) of the latter, usually follow a power-law. PoweRGen produces synthetic property and subsumption graphs whose distributions respect the power-law exponents given as input with a confidence ranging between 90 − 98%.

Contact Information Yannis Theoharis
Email: theohari@ics.forth.gr

Contact Information George Georgakopoulos
Email: ggeo@csd.uoc.gr

Contact Information Vassilis Christophides
Email: christop@ics.forth.gr
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