In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
The nondeterministic information logic NIL has been introduced by Orlowska and Pawlak in 1984 as a logic for reasoning about total information systems with the similarity, the forw...
Motivated by a chemical process engineering application, we introduce a new concept constructor in Description Logics (DLs), an n-ary variant of the existential restriction constr...
In this work we summarize our recent results on extending Description Logics for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exceptions. First, we focus our attent...
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti...
Axiom pinpointing has been introduced in description logics (DLs) to help the user understand the reasons why consequences hold by computing minimal subsets of the knowledge base t...