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AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Equality-Friendly Well-Founded Semantics and Applications to Description Logics
We tackle the problem of defining a well-founded semantics (WFS) for Datalog rules with existentially quantified variables in their heads and negations in their bodies. In partic...
Georg Gottlob, André Hernich, Clemens Kupke...
SOSYM
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Extending the Unified Modeling Language for ontology development
Abstract. There is rapidly growing momentum for web enabled agents that reason about and dynamically integrate the appropriate knowledge and services at run-time. The dynamic integ...
Kenneth Baclawski, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Paul A. Ko...
WS
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
OWL 2: The next step for OWL
Since achieving W3C recommendation status in 2004, the Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been successfully applied to many problems in computer science. Practical experience with OW...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik, B...
FUIN
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
On the Relationship between Description Logic-based and F-Logic-based Ontologies
Many popular ontology languages are based on (subsets of) first-order predicate logic, with classes represented by unary predicates and properties by binary predicates. Specificall...
Jos de Bruijn, Stijn Heymans
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Uncertainty Reasoning in Description Logics: A Generic Approach
Description Logics (DL) are gaining more popularity as the foundation of ontology languages for the Semantic Web. As most information in real life is imperfect, there has been an ...
Volker Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, Nematollaah Shiri
OWLED
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The OWL in the CASL - Designing Ontologies Across Logics
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the web ontology language OWL can be accommodated within the larger framework of the heterogeneous common algebraic specification language HETC...
Oliver Kutz, Dominik Lücke, Till Mossakowski,...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Integrating Ontology Languages and Answer Set Programming
We integrate ontology languages and logic programming (LP) by extending disjunctive logic programs (DLPs) and their semantics in order to support inverses and an infinite univers...
Stijn Heymans, Dirk Vermeir
FQAS
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Controlled Aggregate Tree Shaped Questions over Ontologies
Abstract. Controlled languages (CLs) are ambiguity-free subsets of natural languages such as English offering a good trade-off between the formal rigor of ontology and query langua...
Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese
SEMCO
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Conceptual Space Markup Language (CSML): Towards the Cognitive Semantic Web
—CSML is a semantic markup language created for the publishing and sharing of conceptual spaces, which are geometric structures that represent semantics at the conceptual level. ...
Benjamin Adams, Martin Raubal
EDBT
2006
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
The SIRUP Ontology Query API in Action
Ontology languages to represent ontologies exist in large numbers, and users who want to access or reuse ontologies can often be confronted with a language they do not know. Theref...
Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittric...