This paper introduces a formal theory for describing actions in terminological knowledge bases, closely related to description logics. It deals in particular with the problem of ad...
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
We introduce here the notions of identity and unity as they have been discussed in Philosophy, and then provide additional clarifications needed to use these notions as fundamental...
In recent years, a number of projects have turned to Wikipedia to establish large-scale taxonomies that describe orders of magnitude more entities than traditional manually built ...
To explain complex phenomena, an explanation system must be able to select information from a formal representation of domain knowledge, organize the selected information into mul...