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WS
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Translating the Foundational Model of Anatomy into OWL
The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) [7] represents the result of manual and disciplined modeling of the structural organization of the human body. Many workers in medical info...
Natalya Fridman Noy, Daniel L. Rubin
FUIN
2008
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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
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
OWL DL: description logic's syntactic variant for the semantic web
OWL DL, being established by W3C, is a Knowledge Representation Markup Language for the Semantic Web. OWL DL is a new synthesis of research on KRML for the Semantic Web, which nee...
Wei Ming Zhang, Jun-feng Song
OWLED
2007
13 years 6 months ago
OWL SAIQL - An OWL DL Query Language for Ontology Extraction
Existing approaches for querying OWL DL do either only operate on syntactic constructs without taking into account the semantics of OWL or do only have a restricted access to the T...
Alexander Kubias, Simon Schenk, Steffen Staab, Jef...
OWLED
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The OWL of Biomedical Investigations
The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), written in OWL DL, is being developed by a large consortium seeking to provide a crossdomain, shared framework for representing in...
Mélanie Courtot, William Bug, Frank Gibson,...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Decomposition-Based Approach to Optimizing Conjunctive Query Answering in OWL DL
Scalable query answering over Description Logic (DL) based ontologies plays an important role for the success of the Semantic Web. Towards tackling the scalability problem, we prop...
Jianfeng Du, Guilin Qi, Jeff Z. Pan, Yi-Dong Shen
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Vampire to Reason with OWL
OWL DL corresponds to a Description Logic (DL) that is a fragment of classical first-order predicate logic (FOL). Therefore, the standard methods of automated reasoning for full F...
Dmitry Tsarkov, Alexandre Riazanov, Sean Bechhofer...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Soundness proof of Z semantics of OWL using institutions
The correctness of the Z semantics of OWL is the theoretical foundation of using software engineering techniques to verify Web ontologies. As OWL and Z are based on different logi...
Dorel Lucanu, Yuan-Fang Li, Jin Song Dong