Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
Answering conjunctive queries (CQs) has been recognized as a key task for the usage of Description Logics (DLs) in a number of applications, and has thus been studied by many auth...
Distributed Description Logics (DDLs) is a KR formalism that enables reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping (bridge rules). DDLs capture ...
Least Common Subsumers in Description Logics have shown their usefulness for discovering commonalities among all concepts of a collection. Several applications are nevertheless foc...
Simona Colucci, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. ...
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to study semantic notions of modularity in description logic (DL) terminologies and reasoning problems that are relevant for modularity. We defin...
Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Dirk Walther, Frank Wol...