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ECAI
2000
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Explaining ALC Subsumption
Knowledge representation systems, including ones based on Description Logics (DLs), use explanation facilities to, among others, debug knowledge bases. Until now, such facilities w...
Alexander Borgida, Enrico Franconi, Ian Horrocks
SPATIALCOGNITION
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Interactive Layout Generation with a Diagrammatic Constraint Language
The paper analyzes a diagrammatic reasoning problem that consists in finding a graphical layout which simultaneously satisfies a set of constraints expressed in a formal language a...
Christoph Schlieder, Cornelius Hagen
DIAGRAMS
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Generating Readable Proofs: A Heuristic Approach to Theorem Proving With Spider Diagrams
An important aim of diagrammatic reasoning is to make it easier for people to create and understand logical arguments. We have worked on spider diagrams, which visually express log...
Jean Flower, Judith Masthoff, Gem Stapleton
DIAGRAMS
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Attention Based Theory to Explore Affordances of Textual and Diagrammatic Proofs
Shimojima and Katagiri have demonstrated that diagrams reduce "inferential load" during reasoning by scaffolding visual-spatial aspects of memory. In response, we wondere...
Peter Coppin, Jim Burton, Stephen Hockema
RWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Reasoning and Explanation in EL and in Expressive Description Logics
Description Logics (DLs) are the formalism underlying the standard web ontology language OWL 2. DLs have formal semantics which are the basis for powerful reasoning services. In th...
Anni-Yasmin Turhan