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CADE
2002
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Reasoning with Expressive Description Logics: Theory and Practice
Abstract. Description Logics are a family of class based knowledge representation formalisms characterised by the use of various constructors to build complex classes from simpler ...
Ian Horrocks
FUIN
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
On the Relationship between Description Logic-based and F-Logic-based Ontologies
Many popular ontology languages are based on (subsets of) first-order predicate logic, with classes represented by unary predicates and properties by binary predicates. Specificall...
Jos de Bruijn, Stijn Heymans
SSDBM
2002
IEEE
109views Database» more  SSDBM 2002»
14 years 2 months ago
Query Processing with Description Logic Ontologies Over Object-Wrapped Databases
This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...
MEDINFO
2007
130views Healthcare» more  MEDINFO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
What's in a code? Towards a Formal Account of the Relation of Ontologies and Coding Systems
Terminologies are increasingly based on “ontologies” developed in description logics and related languages such as the new Web Ontology Language, OWL. The use of description l...
Alan L. Rector
WS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web
Ontologies play a crucial role in the development of the Semantic Web as a means for defining shared terms in web resources. They are formulated in web ontology languages, which a...
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Umberto Straccia