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DLOG
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Survey of Revision Approaches in Description Logics
Abstract. Revision of a Description Logic-based ontology to incorporate newly received information consistently is an important problem for the lifecycle of ontologies. Many approa...
Guilin Qi, Fangkai Yang
AAI
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
Augmenting Subsumption Propagation in Distributed Description Logics
Distributed Description Logics (DDL) enable reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping, called bridge rules. Bridge rules map concepts of a s...
Martin Homola, Luciano Serafini
AAAI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
On the Decidability of Role Mappings between Modular Ontologies
Many semantic web applications require support for mappings between roles (or properties) defined in multiple independently developed ontology modules. Distributed Description Log...
Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant...
JSC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Deciding inseparability and conservative extensions in the description logic EL
We study the problem of deciding whether two ontologies are inseparable w.r.t. a signature Σ, i.e., whether they have the same consequences in the signature Σ. A special case is...
Carsten Lutz, Frank Wolter
EON
2008
14 years 10 days ago
Debugging OWL Ontologies - A Reality Check
One of the arguments for choosing description logics as the basis for the Web Ontology Language is the ability to support the development of complex ontologies through logical reas...
Heiner Stuckenschmidt