Many merging operators have been proposed to merge either flat or stratified knowledge bases. The result of merging by such an operator is a flat base (or a set of models of the me...
Abstract. Hybrid knowledge bases (HKB’s) [11] were developed to provide formal models for the mediation of data and knowledge bases [14,15]. They are based on Generalized Annotat...
Abstract. In this paper we focus on the problem of integrating knowledge bases expressed in a description logic. To this end, we propose three basic operations: union, intersection...
A significant obstacle to the development of intelligent natural language processing systems is the lack of rich knowledge bases containing representations of world knowledge. Fo...
A knowledge base is maintained by modifying its conceptual model and by using those modifications to specify changes to its implementation. The maintenance problem is to determine ...
Acquiring knowledge has long been the major bottleneck preventing the rapid spread of AI systems. Manual approaches are slow and costly. Machine-learning approaches have limitatio...
In this paper, a new method for merging multiple inconsistent knowledge bases in the framework of possibilistic logic is presented. We divide the fusion process into two steps: on...
Although sorts and unary predicates are semantically identical in order-sorted logic, they are classified as different kinds of properties in formal ontology (e.g. sortal and non...
The Semantic Web vision aims to integrate and convert the vast amount of information available on the Internet into a machine-understandable network. The objective is to promote kn...
OWLIM is a high-performance Storage and Inference Layer (SAIL) for Sesame, which performs OWL DLP reasoning, based on forward-chaining of entilement rules. The reasoning and query ...