We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
We show how the reasoning tasks of checking various versions of conservativity for the description logic DL-Litebool can be reduced to satisfiability of quantified Boolean formulas...
Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Frank Wolter...
This paper proposes constructs that can be used to declaratively specify the disjoint nature of object properties or roles. These constructs may be a useful extension to the Descr...
Transitive roles are important for adequate representation of knowledge in a range of applications. In this paper we present a first algorithm to compute least common subsumers i...
Agent systems that search the Semantic Web are seen as killer applications for description logic (DL) inference engines. The guiding examples for the Semantic Web involve informat...