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KCAP
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL
Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...
Alan L. Rector
DLOG
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Integrated Distributed Description Logics
In the context of the Semantic Web or semantic peer to peer systems, many ontologies may exist and be developed independently. Ontology alignments help integrating, mediating or re...
Antoine Zimmermann
EKAW
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On the Influence of Description Logics Ontologies on Conceptual Similarity
Similarity measures play a key role in the Semantic Web perspective. Indeed, most of the ontology related operations such as ontology learning, ontology alignment, ontology ranking...
Claudia d'Amato, Steffen Staab, Nicola Fanizzi
ECSQARU
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring Inconsistency for Description Logics Based on Paraconsistent Semantics
In this paper, we propose an approach for measuring inconsistency in inconsistent ontologies. We first define the degree of inconsistency of an inconsistent ontology using a four...
Yue Ma, Guilin Qi, Pascal Hitzler, Zuoquan Lin
OTM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Approaches to Inconsistency Handling in Description-Logic Based Ontologies
The problem of inconsistency handling in ontologies has recently been attracting a lot of attention. When inconsistency occurs in an ontology, there are mainly two ways to deal wit...
David A. Bell, Guilin Qi, Weiru Liu