In recent years, several semantics for place/transition Petri nets have been proposed that adopt the collective token philosophy. We investigate distinctions and similarities betwe...
In this paper we introduce a logical query language extended with object-oriented typing facilities. This language, called DTL (from DataTypeLog), can be seen as an extension of Da...
An important reasoning task, in addition to the standard DL reasoning services, is conjunctive query answering. In this paper, we present a decision procedure for conjunctive query...
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...
A critical problem for practical KR is dealing with relationships that change over time. This problem is compounded by representation languages such as OWL that are biased towards ...