A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
Temporal data models have been used to describe how data can evolve in the context of temporal databases. Both the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) model and the Unified Modelli...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryz...
The purpose of the chapter is to help someone familiar with DLs to understand the issues involved in developing an ontology for some universe of discourse, which is to become a co...
We design minimal temporal description logics that are capable of expressing various aspects of temporal conceptual data models and investigate their computational complexity. We ...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryz...