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ESWS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Nonmonotonic Ontological and Rule-Based Reasoning with Extended Conceptual Logic Programs
We present extended conceptual logic programs (ECLPs), for which reasoning is decidable and, moreover, can be reduced to finite answer set programming. ECLPs are useful to reason ...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
KR
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Decomposing Description Logic Ontologies
Recent years have seen the advent of large and complex ontologies, most notably in the medical domain. As a consequence, structuring mechanisms for ontologies are nowadays viewed ...
Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Denis Ponomaryov, Frank...
KR
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Query and Predicate Emptiness in Description Logics
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
DLOG
2008
13 years 10 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
WS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 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