This paper investigates optimization techniques and data structures exploiting the use of so-called pseudo models. These techniques are applied to speed-up TBox and ABox reasoning...
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...
We describe a method for characterizing the expressive power of description logics. The method is essentially model-theoretic in nature, and it is applied to obtain expressiveness...
Abstract. Inconsistency handling in expressive description logics is an important problem because inconsistency may naturally occur in an open world. In this paper, we present the ...
Ontologies are set to play a key r^ole in the "Semantic Web" by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be used in descriptions of web resource...