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DLOG
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Terminating Tableaux for SOQ with Number Restrictions on Transitive Roles
Abstract. We show that the description logic SOQ with number restrictions on transitive roles is decidable by a terminating tableau calculus. The language decided by the calculus i...
Mark Kaminski, Gert Smolka
LPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Practical Reasoning for Expressive Description Logics
Abstract. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Ex...
Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler, Stephan Tobies
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months 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
JAPLL
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Algebraic tableau reasoning for the description logic SHOQ
Semantic web applications based on the web ontology language (OWL) often require the use of numbers in class descriptions for expressing cardinality restrictions on properties or ...
Jocelyne Faddoul, Volker Haarslev
SEBD
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Query Answering in Expressive Variants of DL-Lite
The use of ontologies in various application domains, such as Data Integration, the Semantic Web, or ontology-based data management, where ontologies provide the access to large am...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...