This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...
Distributed Description Logics (DDL) is a KR formalism that enables reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping. Subsumption propagation in DD...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an approach to translating any ALC ontology (possible inconsistent) into a logically consistent set of disjunctive datalog rules. We achieve thi...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe the declarative agent programming language Jadl (JIAC Agent Description Language). Based on threevalued logic, it incorporates ontologies, FIPA...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...