In this paper, we present a normal form for concept expressions in the description logic ALC which is based on a recently introduced notion of prime implicate for the modal logic ...
We describe ongoing research to support the construction of terminologies with Description Logics. For the explanation of subsumption we search for particular concepts because of t...
Knowledge compilation is a common technique for propositional logic knowledge bases. A given knowledge base is transformed into a normal form, for which queries can be answered ef...
It is known that for temporal languages, such as firstorder LT L, reasoning about constant (time-independent) relations is almost always undecidable. This applies to temporal des...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Carsten Lutz,...
Snomed ct is a large-scale medical ontology, which is developed using a variant of the inexpressive Description Logic EL. Description Logic reasoning can not only be used to compu...