Abstract. With the advent of the Semantic Web, the question becomes important how to best combine open-world based ontology languages, like OWL, with closed-world rules paradigms. ...
Automation of Web service composition is one of the most interesting challenges facing the Semantic Web today. Since Web services have been enhanced with formal semantic descriptio...
An important objective of the Semantic Web is to make Electronic Commerce interactions more flexible and automated. To achieve this, standardization of ontologies, message content...
In this paper we argue that a realistic architecture for the Semantic Web must be based on multiple independent, but interoperable, stacks of languages. In particular, we argue tha...
Michael Kifer, Jos de Bruijn, Harold Boley, Dieter...
Abstract Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the onto...