In the extensive usage of ontologies envisaged by the Semantic Web there is a compelling need for expressing mappings between the components of heterogeneous ontologies. These mapp...
Recent experimental results have shown that the strength of resolution, the propositional DPLL procedure, the KSAT procedure for description logics, or related tableau-like implem...
Abstract. In spatial reasoning the qualitative description of relations between spatial regions is of practical importance and has been widely studied. Examples of such relations a...
In this paper we deal with the problem of providing natural language front-ends to databases upon which an ontology layer has been added. Specifically, we are interested in expres...
Raffaella Bernardi, Diego Calvanese, Camilo Thorne
We consider an extension of integer linear arithmetic with a "star" operator takes closure under vector addition of the solution set of a linear arithmetic subformula. We...