In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...
Ontologies play a crucial role in the development of the Semantic Web as a means for defining shared terms in web resources. They are formulated in web ontology languages, which a...
Computing least common subsumers in description logics is an important reasoning service useful for a number of applications. As shown in the literature, it can, for instance, be u...
Probabilistic Description Logics are the basis of ontologies in the Semantic Web. Knowledge representation and reasoning for these logics have been extensively explored in the last...
The use of Description Logic as the basis for Semantic Web Languages has led to new requirements with respect to scalable and nonstandard reasoning. In this paper, we address the p...