Multiple distributed and modular ontology representation frameworks have recently appeared. They typically extend Description Logics (DL), with new constructs to represent relation...
An important reasoning task, in addition to the standard DL reasoning services, is conjunctive query answering. In this paper, we present a decision procedure for conjunctive query...
Default Logic and Logic Programming with stable model semantics are recognized as powerful frameworks for incomplete information representation. Their expressive power are suitabl...
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...
This paper introduces relaxed abduction, a novel non-standard reasoning task for description logics. Although abductive reasoning over description logic knowledge bases has been ap...