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RWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Reasoning and Explanation in EL and in Expressive Description Logics
Description Logics (DLs) are the formalism underlying the standard web ontology language OWL 2. DLs have formal semantics which are the basis for powerful reasoning services. In th...
Anni-Yasmin Turhan
DLOG
2006
14 years 25 days ago
Data Complexity of Answering Unions of Conjunctive Queries in SHIQ
The novel context of accessing and querying large data repositories through ontologies that are formalized in terms of expressive DLs requires on the one hand to consider query an...
Magdalena Ortiz, Diego Calvanese, Thomas Eiter
AAAI
2006
14 years 26 days ago
Characterizing Data Complexity for Conjunctive Query Answering in Expressive Description Logics
Description Logics (DLs) are the formal foundations of the standard web ontology languages OWL-DL and OWL-Lite. In the Semantic Web and other domains, ontologies are increasingly ...
Magdalena Ortiz, Diego Calvanese, Thomas Eiter
AAAI
2010
14 years 27 days ago
Soundness Preserving Approximation for TBox Reasoning
Large scale ontology applications require efficient and robust description logic (DL) reasoning services. Expressive DLs usually have very high worst case complexity while tractab...
Yuan Ren, Jeff Z. Pan, Yuting Zhao
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Explaining ALC Subsumption
Knowledge representation systems, including ones based on Description Logics (DLs), use explanation facilities to, among others, debug knowledge bases. Until now, such facilities w...
Alexander Borgida, Enrico Franconi, Ian Horrocks
JELIA
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Computing the Least Common Subsumer w.r.t. a Background Terminology
Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very e...
Franz Baader, Baris Sertkaya, Anni-Yasmin Turhan