Ontologies are set to play a key r^ole in the "Semantic Web" by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be used in descriptions of web resource...
Cyclic definitions in description logics have until now been investigated only for description logics allowing for value restrictions. Even for the most basic language which allow...
Abstract Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the onto...
Using quantitative models of simple mechanisms as an example domain, we show how the basic principles of consistency-based diagnosis can be implemented using description logics wi...
With the advent of the Semantic Web, description logics have become one of the most prominent paradigms for knowledge representation and reasoning. Progress in research and applica...