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SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Axiomatic First-Order Probability
Most languages for the Semantic Web have their logical basis in some fragment of first-order logic. Thus, integrating first-order logic with probability is fundamental for represen...
Kathryn B. Laskey
AAAI
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Irrelevance and Conditioning in First-Order Probabilistic Logic
First-order probabilistic logic is a powerful knowledge representation language. Unfortunately, deductive reasoning based on the standard semantics for this logic does not support...
Daphne Koller, Joseph Y. Halpern
CORR
2000
Springer
132views Education» more  CORR 2000»
13 years 7 months ago
Uniform semantic treatment of default and autoepistemic logics
We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general seman...
Marc Denecker, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
ADC
2006
Springer
142views Database» more  ADC 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
An optimization for query answering on ALC database
Query answering over OWLs and RDFs on the Semantic Web is, in general, a deductive process. To this end, OWL, a family of web ontology languages based on description logic, has be...
Pakornpong Pothipruk, Guido Governatori
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