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2000
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Optimizing TBox and ABox Reasoning with Pseudo Models
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...
Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller
MEDINFO
2007
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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
DLOG
1997
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Classifying Description Logics
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...
Natasha Kurtonina, Maarten de Rijke
DLOG
2009
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Quasi-Classical Semantics for Expressive Description Logics
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 ...
Xiaowang Zhang, Guilin Qi, Yue Ma, Zuoquan Lin
IJCAI
2001
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Ontology Reasoning in the SHOQ(D) Description Logic
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...
Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler