Fuzzy Description Logics (DLs) are a family of logics which allow the representation of (and the reasoning within) structured knowledge affected by vagueness. Although a relativel...
Abstract The effective management and exploitation of multimedia documents requires the extraction of the underlying semantics. Multimedia analysis algorithms can produce fairly ri...
Abstract. Inconsistency and incoherency are two sorts of erroneous information in a DL ontology which have been widely discussed in ontology-based applications. For example, they h...
Abstract. A usage scenario of bio-ontologies is hypothesis testing, such as finding relationships or new subconcepts in the data linked to the ontology. Whilst validating the hypot...
Abstract: We present DLDB, a knowledge base system that extends a relational database management system with additional capabilities for DAML+OIL inference. We discuss a number of ...