The availability of techniques for comparing descriptions has many applications in Artificial Intelligence, ranging from description selection to flexible matching, from instance...
Stefano Ferilli, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Nic...
Abstract. The preferential and rational consequence relations first studied by Lehmann and colleagues play a central role in non-monotonic reasoning, not least because they provid...
Abstract. The Semantic Web is commonly perceived as a web of partially interlinked machine readable data. This data is inherently distributed and resembles the structure of the web...
ct 9 The benefits of modular representations are well known from many areas of computer science. While in software engi10 neering modularization is mainly a vehicle for supporting...
This paper describes the initial stages of building an ontology of bioinformatics and molecular biology. The conceptualisation is encoded using the Ontology Inference Layer (OIL),...
Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble, Ian Horrocks, Sea...