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1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Ontology of Meta-Level Categories
We focus in this paper on some meta-level ontological distinctions among unary predicates, like those between concepts and assertional properties. Three are the main contributions...
Nicola Guarino, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele ...
AUSAI
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Feasibility of Optimised Disjunctive Reasoning for Approximate Matching
Abstract. Description logics are powerful knowledge representation systems providing well-founded and computationally tractable classification reasoning. However recognition of in...
Ian Horrocks, Lin Padgham, Laura Thomson
TPLP
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Towards closed world reasoning in dynamic open worlds
The need for integration of ontologies with nonmonotonic rules has been gaining importance in a number of areas, such as the Semantic Web. A number of researchers addressed this p...
Martin Slota, João Leite
AUSAI
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Decidability of Propositionally Quantified Logics of Knowledge
Abstract. Logics of knowledge have important applications for reasoning about security protocols and multi-agent systems. We extend the semantics for the logic of necessity with lo...
Tim French
DLOG
2003
13 years 9 months ago
From Description Logic Provers to Knowledge Representation Systems
A description-logic based knowledge representation system is more than an inference engine for a particular description logic. A knowledge representation system must provide a num...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider