Effective optimisation techniques can make a dramatic difference in the performance of knowledge representation systems based on expressive description logics. Because of the corre...
Abstract. This paper presents a tableau approach for deciding description logics outside the scope of OWL DL and current state-of-the-art tableau-based description logic systems. I...
Terminologies are increasingly based on “ontologies” developed in description logics and related languages such as the new Web Ontology Language, OWL. The use of description l...
This paper proposes a paraconsistent and nonmonotonic extension of description logic by planting a nonmonotonic mechanism called minimal inconsistency in paradoxical description lo...