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IADIS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
OWL DL: description logic's syntactic variant for the semantic web
OWL DL, being established by W3C, is a Knowledge Representation Markup Language for the Semantic Web. OWL DL is a new synthesis of research on KRML for the Semantic Web, which nee...
Wei Ming Zhang, Jun-feng Song
KR
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Toward a Logic for Qualitative Decision Theory
We present a logic for representing and reasoning with qualitative statements of preference and normality and describe how these may interact in decision making under uncertainty....
Craig Boutilier
DLOG
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Reasoning About Typicality in ALC and EL
In this work we summarize our recent results on extending Description Logics for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exceptions. First, we focus our attent...
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti...
JAPLL
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
The seven virtues of simple type theory
Simple type theory, also known as higher-order logic, is a natural extension of first-order logic which is simple, elegant, highly expressive, and practical. This paper surveys th...
William M. Farmer
GPC
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Island-Based Query Answering for Expressive Ontologies
Scalability of reasoning systems is one of the main criteria which will determine the success of Semantic Web systems in the future. The focus of recent work is either on (a) expre...
Sebastian Wandelt, Ralf Möller