We present a novel reasoning calculus for the Description Logic SHIQ. In order to reduce the nondeterminism due to general inclusion axioms, we base our calculus on hypertableau an...
Designing a terminological knowledge base consists in collecting terms and associating them to their definition. Our objective is to define a process model to support this design ...
Medical Terminological Knowledge Bases contain a large number of primitive concept definitions. This is due to the large number of natural kinds that are represented, and due to t...
Abstract. Ontologies undergo changes for reasons such as changes in knowledge, meeting varying application requirements. Thus, for different versions of a considered ontology, it i...
The users of libraries of object-oriented software components face with both a terminological and a cognitive gap. Usually, library users do not understand the vocabulary used in t...