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AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Terminological Reasoning in SHIQ with Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams
We present a new algorithm for reasoning in the description logic SHIQ, which is the most prominent fragment of the Web Ontology Language OWL. The algorithm is based on ordered bi...
Sebastian Rudolph, Markus Krötzsch, Pascal Hi...
DLOG
2004
13 years 6 months ago
On Subsumption and Instance Problem in ELH w.r.t. General TBoxes
Recently, it was shown for the DL EL that subsumption and instance problem w.r.t. cyclic terminologies can be decided in polynomial time. In this paper, we show that both problems...
Sebastian Brandt
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Foundations of Spatioterminological Reasoning with Description Logics
This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning abou...
Volker Haarslev, Carsten Lutz, Ralf Möller
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Spatial location and its relevance for terminological inferences in bio-ontologies
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...
Stefan Schulz, Kornél G. Markó, Udo ...
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Building Concept Representations from Reusable Components
Our goal is to build knowledge-based systems capable of answering a wide variety of questions, including questions that are unanticipated when the knowledge base is built. For sys...
Peter Clark, Bruce W. Porter