We recently proposed action formalisms based on description logics (DLs) as decidable fragments of well-established action theories such as the Situation Calculus and the Fluent C...
Hongkai Liu, Carsten Lutz, Maja Milicic, Frank Wol...
Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very e...
Description Logics are a family of very expressive logics but some forms of knowledge are much more intuitive to formulate otherwise, say, as rules. Rules in DL can be dealt with t...
In this paper, we describe the use of description logic as the basis for a policy representation language and show how it is used in our implementation of a policy managed pervasi...
Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Bill Keller, Julie Weeds, D...
In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general objectoriented model for sc...