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DLOG
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Reasoning About Typicality in ALC and EL
In this work we summarize our recent results on extending Description Logics for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exceptions. First, we focus our attent...
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti...
ADC
2006
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
An optimization for query answering on ALC database
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...
Pakornpong Pothipruk, Guido Governatori
DLOG
2011
13 years 1 months ago
Concept Model Semantics for DL Preferential Reasoning
Abstract. The preferential and rational consequence relations first studied by Lehmann and colleagues play a central role in non-monotonic reasoning, not least because they provid...
Arina Britz, Thomas Meyer, Ivan José Varzin...
DLOG
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Relativizing Concept Descriptions to Comparison Classes
Context-sensitivity has been for long a subject of study in linguistics, logic and computer science. Recently the problem of representing and reasoning with contextual knowledge ha...
Szymon Klarman, Stefan Schlobach
DLOG
2007
14 years 3 days ago
Optimizing Tableau Reasoning in ALC Extended with Uncertainty
Abstract. There has been an increased interest in recent years to incorporate uncertainty in Description Logics (DLs), and a number of proposals have been put forward for modeling ...
Volker Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, Nematollaah Shiri