Abstract Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the onto...
Abstract—In semantic matchmaking processes it is often useful, when the obtained match is not full, to provide explanations for the mismatch, to leverage further interaction and/...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....
An object-oriented software design is often modelled as a collection of UML diagrams. There is an inherent need to preserve the consistency between these diagrams. Moreover, throu...
Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Jocelyn Simmonds, Tom M...
Answering queries over ontologies is an important issue for the Semantic Web. Aggregate queries were widely studied for relational databases but almost no results are known for ag...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Ca...
Abstract. Ontologies are now used within an increasing number of realworld applications. So far, significant effort has been spend in building tools to support users in creating,...