Abstract. Developing a good formalism and an efficient decision procedure for the instance checking problem is desirable for practical application of description logics. The data c...
Abstract. Knowledge compilation is a common technique for propositional logic knowledge bases. The idea is to transform a given knowledge base into a special normal form ([MR03],[D...
In this short position paper, the project of building intelligent business information infrastructure using semantic web, ontology, description logics, and other related knowledge...
This paper gives an account of how traditional metadata application profiles are related to Web ontologies and Description Logics. It is shown that metadata profiles can be formal...
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Georgia D. Solomou
Abstract. Revision of a Description Logic-based ontology to incorporate newly received information consistently is an important problem for the lifecycle of ontologies. Many approa...