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KR
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query and Predicate Emptiness in Description Logics
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
DLOG
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Description Logics Revisited
Distributed Description Logics (DDLs) is a KR formalism that enables reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping (bridge rules). DDLs capture ...
Martin Homola
CADE
2005
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
The OWL Instance Store: System Description
Abstract. We describe the instance store, a system for reasoning about individuals (i.e., instances of classes) in OWL ontologies. By using a hybrid reasoner/database architecture,...
Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Daniele Turi
CBMS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
ADONIS: Automated diagnosis system based on sound and precise logical descriptions
Automated medical diagnosis systems based on knowledge-oriented descriptions have gained momentum with the emergence of Semantic Descriptions. However, soundness and efficiency of...
Alejandro Rodríguez González, Jos&ea...
DLOG
1996
13 years 10 months ago
A Translation Scheme for Domain Ontologies Based on Model Ontologies of KBS
To ensure the re-use of domain ontologies the usual approach relies on a pivot language, e.g., Kif, intoandfromwhich the domainontologyis translated. This requires several distinc...
Houria Mihoubi, Ana Simonet, Michel Simonet