Abstract--High level conceptual thought seems to be at the basis of the impressive human cognitive ability, and AI researchers aim to replicate this ability in artificial agents. C...
Abstract--Property specification is still one of the most challenging tasks for transference of software verification technology like model checking. The use of patterns has been p...
Abstract. We study the problem of evolution for Knowledge Bases (KBs) expressed in Description Logics (DLs) of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the t...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...
Abstract. TBox reasoning in description logics is hard. For example, reasoning in SROIQ (i.e. OWL2-DL) is N2EXPTIME-complete; even with R, a fragment of SROIQ supporting ALC GCIs a...
Abstract. Service compositions leverage remote services to deliver addedvalue distributed applications. Since services are administered and run by independent parties, the governan...
Luciano Baresi, Domenico Bianculli, Sam Guinea, Pa...