Abstract. We show that subsumption problems in EL and related description logics can be expressed as uniform word problems in classes of semilattices with monotone operators. We us...
In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
Abstract. Twelf is a meta-logical framework for the specification, implementation, and meta-theory of deductive systems from the theory of programming languages and logics. It rel...
Abstract. Multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a gametheoretic viewpoint. In negotiation settings, utility functions are used to express agent preferences....
In this paper we propose a nonmonotonic extension ALC + Tmin of the Description Logic ALC for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exception. The logic ALC ...
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti...