There is an ongoing discussion whether reasoning in the Semantic Web should be monotonic or not. It seems however that the problem concerns not only the reasoning over knowledge bu...
Abstract. We address the problem of providing a logical characterization of reasoning based on stereotypes. Following [6] we take a semantic perspective and we base our model on a ...
It is envisaged that the application of the multilevel security (MLS) scheme will enhance exibility and e ectiveness of authorization policies in shared enterprise databases and w...
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
An important issue for the Semantic Web is how to combine open-world ontology languages with closed-world (non-monotonic) rule paradigms. Several proposals for hybrid languages all...