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An Executable Specification for SPARQL

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Linked Data on the web consists of over 1000 datasets from a variety of domains. They are queried with the SPARQL query language. There exist many implementations of SPARQL, and this rich ecosystem has demanded a precise specification and compliance tests. However, the SPARQL specification has grown in complexity, and it is increasingly difficult for developers to validate their implementations. In this paper, we present a declarative specification for SPARQL, based on relational logic. It describes SPARQL with just a few operators, and is executable: queries written in it can be directly executed against real datasets.

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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Mihaela Bornea, Julian Dolby, Achille Fokoue, Kavitha Srinivas & Mandana Vaziri

  2. Google Research, Mountain View, California, USA

    Anastasios Kementsietsidis

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  1. Poznań University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

    Wojciech Cellary

  2. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Mohamed F. Mokbel

  3. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Jianmin Wang

  4. Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Hua Wang

  5. Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rui Zhou

  6. Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Bornea, M., Dolby, J., Fokoue, A., Kementsietsidis, A., Srinivas, K., Vaziri, M. (2016). An Executable Specification for SPARQL. In: Cellary, W., Mokbel, M., Wang, J., Wang, H., Zhou, R., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2016. WISE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_24

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