The last decade of basic research in the area of Description Logics (DL) has created a stable theory, efficient inference procedures, and has demonstrated a wide applicability of ...
We present a novel reasoning calculus for Description Logics (DLs)--knowledge representation formalisms with applications in areas such as the Semantic Web. In order to reduce the ...
Semantic web applications based on the web ontology language (OWL) often require the use of numbers in class descriptions for expressing cardinality restrictions on properties or ...
Abstract. We discuss language architecture for the Semantic Web, and in particular different proposals for extending this architecture with a rules component. We argue that an arch...
Ian Horrocks, Bijan Parsia, Peter F. Patel-Schneid...
In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the performance of reasoning on the Semantic Web in presence of large ABoxes. Traditional reasoners make heavily use of ...