We address the problem of reasoning with instances of heterogeneously formalized ontologies. Given a set of semantic mappings, reconciling conceptual and instance level heterogenei...
Access control has been studied for sometime, and there are a number of theories and techniques for handling access control for single or centralised systems; however, unique and ...
Daisy Daiqin He, Michael Compton, Kerry Taylor, Ji...
We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
The paper proposes a novel analysis of quantificational subordination, e.g. Harvey courts a woman at every convention. {She is very pretty. vs. She always comes to the banquet with...
Abstract. We investigate the combination of propositional SAT checkers with domain-specific theorem provers as a foundation for bounded model checking over infinite domains. Given ...