For constructing semantically rich service descriptions in Grid services, emerging ontologies are being used. To generate ontologies, an issue named "ontology bottleneck"...
Abstract This paper analyzes the probabilistic description logic PSHIQ by looking at it as a fragment of probabilistic first-order logic with semantics based on possible worlds. We...
Subqueries are a poweful feature which allows to enforce reuse, composition, rewriting and optimization in a query language. In this paper we perform a comprehensive study of the i...
In this paper, we present a reasoner capable of epistemic inferences in SROIQ knowledge bases. We first identify some counter intuitive effects of imposing the traditional semant...
We present a new, streamlined language of global types equipped with a trace-based semantics and whose features and restrictions are semantically justified. The multi-party sessio...
Giuseppe Castagna, Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini,...