We present a novel reasoning procedure for Horn SHIQ ontologies--SHIQ ontologies that can be translated to the Horn fragment of first-order logic. In contrast to traditional reaso...
Network-based information systems use well-defined standards to ensure interoperability and also have a tightly coupled relationship between their internal data representation an...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Ontologies are an increasingly important tool in knowledge representation, as they allow large amounts of data to be related in a logical fashion. Current research is concentrated...
Matthew E. Taylor, Cynthia Matuszek, Bryan Klimt, ...
We present an approach to ontology population based on a lexical substitution technique. It consists in estimating the plausibility of sentences where the named entity to be class...
We show how a tableaux algorithm for SHIQ can be extended to support role boxes that include range and domain axioms, prove that the extended algorithm is still a decision procedur...