In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...
Abstract. Inconsistency and incoherency are two sorts of erroneous information in a DL ontology which have been widely discussed in ontology-based applications. For example, they h...
The work in this paper is directed towards sophisticated formalisms for reasoning under probabilistic uncertainty in ontologies in the Semantic Web. Ontologies play a central role...
Abstract. Developing a good formalism and an efficient decision procedure for the instance checking problem is desirable for practical application of description logics. The data c...
Current Description Logic reasoning systems provide only limited support for debugging logically erroneous knowledge bases. In this paper we propose new non-standard reasoning ser...