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Operational Semantics for SPARQL Update

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The Semantic Web (JIST 2011)

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Concurrent fine grained updates are essential for using RDF stores in dynamic modern Web applications, where users increasingly contribute content as often as they read content. SPARQL Update is a language proposed by the W3C for fine grained updates for RDF stores. In this work we propose an operational semantics for an update language for RDF, which models core features of SPARQL Update. Firstly, an abstract syntax for RDF and updates is presented. Secondly, the operational semantics is defined using relations over the abstract syntax. The operational semantics specifies all possible operational behaviours of updates in the presence of an RDF store. The specification is useful as a common reference for compiler engineers and as a foundation for the static analysis of updates.

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  1. Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

    Ross Horne, Vladimiro Sassone & Nicholas Gibbins

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Jeff Z. Pan

  2. College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Huajun Chen  & Zhaohui Wu  & 

  3. BIKE Lab, Seoul National University, Yeongun-Dong, Jongro-Gu, 110-749, Seoul, Korea

    Hong-Gee Kim

  4. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Juanzi Li

  5. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, 94065, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

    Zhe Wu

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, UK

    Ian Horrocks

  7. Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, 567-0047, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

    Riichiro Mizoguchi

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Horne, R., Sassone, V., Gibbins, N. (2012). Operational Semantics for SPARQL Update. In: Pan, J.Z., et al. The Semantic Web. JIST 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7185. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29923-0_16

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