The ability to deal with inconsistencies and to evaluate the impact of possible solutions for resolving inconsistencies are of the utmost importance in real world ontology applicat...
Joey Sik Chun Lam, Derek H. Sleeman, Jeff Z. Pan, ...
With the increasing use of ontologies in Semantic Web and enterprise knowledge management, it is critical to develop scalable and efficient ontology management systems. In this pap...
Jian Zhou, Li Ma, Qiaoling Liu, Lei Zhang, Yong Yu...
Abstract. OWL DL, a new W3C ontology language recommendation, is based on the expressive description logic SHOIN. Although the ontology consistency problem for SHOIN is known to be...
As a vision for the future of the Web, the Semantic Web is an open, constantly changing and collaborative environment. Hence it is reasonable to expect that knowledge sources in th...
As a tractable description logic, DL-Lite provides a good compromise between expressive power and computational complexity of inference. It is therefore important to study ways of ...