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DLOG
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed Resolution for ALC
The use of Description Logic as the basis for Semantic Web Languages has led to new requirements with respect to scalable and nonstandard reasoning. In this paper, we address the p...
Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
DLOG
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Conjunctive Query Answering in SH using Knots
Answering conjunctive queries (CQs) has been recognized as a key task for the usage of Description Logics (DLs) in a number of applications. The problem has been studied by many au...
Magdalena Ortiz, Mantas Simkus, Thomas Eiter
DLOG
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting Conjunctive Queries in Description Logic Programs
We present cq-programs, which enhance nonmonotonic description logics (dl-) programs by conjunctive queries (CQ) and union of conjunctive queries (UCQ) over Description Logics kno...
Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwa...
DLOG
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Expressive Querying over Fuzzy DL-Lite Ontologies
Abstract. Fuzzy Description Logics (f-DLs) have been proposed as formalisms capable of capturing and reasoning about imprecise and vague knowledge. The last years, research in Desc...
Jeff Z. Pan, Giorgos B. Stamou, Giorgos Stoilos, E...
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
On the Decidability of Role Mappings between Modular Ontologies
Many semantic web applications require support for mappings between roles (or properties) defined in multiple independently developed ontology modules. Distributed Description Log...
Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant...
TABLEAUX
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
MSPASS: Modal Reasoning by Translation and First-Order Resolution
mspass is an extension of the first-order theorem prover spass, which can be used as a modal logic theorem prover, a theorem prover for description logics and a theorem prover for ...
Ullrich Hustadt, Renate A. Schmidt
KR
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reasoning with Axioms: Theory and Practice
When reasoning in description, modal or temporal logics it is often useful to consider axioms representing universal truths in the domain of discourse. Reasoning with respect to a...
Ian Horrocks, Stephan Tobies
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Web Service Modeling Language WSML: An Overview
The Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) is a language for the specification of different aspects of Semantic Web Services. It provides a formal language for the Web Service Modeli...
Jos de Bruijn, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Diete...
AISC
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimising Propositional Modal Satisfiability for Description Logic Subsumption
Effective optimisation techniques can make a dramatic difference in the performance of knowledge representation systems based on expressive description logics. Because of the corre...
Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
AUSAI
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Computing Least Common Subsumers in Expressive Description Logics
Computing least common subsumers in description logics is an important reasoning service useful for a number of applications. As shown in the literature, this reasoning service ca...
Thomas Mantay