The need of biomedical vocabularies is well known for various tasks, e.g., supporting structured data entry, decision support and electronic data exchange as well as retrieval and...
In the extensive usage of ontologies envisaged by the Semantic Web there is a compelling need for expressing mappings between the components of heterogeneous ontologies. These mapp...
In this extended abstract an optimization technique, the so-called signature calculus, for reasoning with number restrictions in description logics is investigated. The calculus i...
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...