Abstract. Fuzzy Description Logics (f-DLs) have been proposed as formalisms capable of capturing and reasoning about imprecise and vague knowledge. The last years, research in Desc...
Jeff Z. Pan, Giorgos B. Stamou, Giorgos Stoilos, E...
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
Practical scalability of Description Logic (DL) reasoning is an important premise for the adoption of OWL in a real-world setting. Many highly efficient optimizations for the DL ta...
Abstract—For many tasks, such as the integration of knowledge bases in the semantic web, one must not only handle the knowledge itself, but also characterizations of this knowled...
Simon Schenk, Renata Queiroz Dividino, Steffen Sta...
We present a query answering technique based on notions and results from modal Correspondence Theory. It allows us to answer a wide family of conjunctive queries by polynomial redu...