Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...
The conceptual formalism supported by an ontology is not sufficient for handling vague information that is commonly found in many application domains. We describe how to introduce...
Large software systems are modularized in order to improve manageability. The parts of the software system communicate in order to achieve the desired functionality. To better und...
Daniel Oberle, Steffen Lamparter, Stephan Grimm, D...
We show how the reasoning tasks of checking various versions of conservativity for the description logic DL-Litebool can be reduced to satisfiability of quantified Boolean formulas...
Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Frank Wolter...
Abstract. Across a wide range of domains, there is an urgent need for a wellfounded approach to incorporating uncertain and incomplete knowledge into formal domain ontologies. Alth...