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ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Explaining ALC Subsumption
Knowledge representation systems, including ones based on Description Logics (DLs), use explanation facilities to, among others, debug knowledge bases. Until now, such facilities w...
Alexander Borgida, Enrico Franconi, Ian Horrocks
DLOG
1997
13 years 10 months ago
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
13 years 6 months ago
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
DLOG
2008
13 years 11 months ago
All Elephants are Bigger than All Mice
Abstract. We investigate the concept product as an expressive feature for description logics (DLs). While this construct allows us to express an arguably very common and natural ty...
Sebastian Rudolph, Markus Krötzsch, Pascal Hi...
IJCAI
2001
13 years 10 months ago
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