Ontologies in a legal expert system must be processed to suit all possible user cases within the field of law of the system. From the logical premises of a deductive system of expr...
Existing efforts on ontology mapping, alignment and merging vary from methodological and theoretical frameworks, to methods and tools that support the semi-automatic coordination o...
The complexity of distributed systems is a problem when designers want to evaluate their safety and liveness. Often, they are built by integration of existing components with newl...
Abstract. A nearest neighbor search procedure is presented, for retrieving resources in knowledge bases expressed in OWL. The procedure exploits a semidistance for annotated resour...
We show how the reasoning tasks of checking various versions of conservativity for the description logic DL-Litebool can be reduced to satisfiability of quantified Boolean formulas...
Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Frank Wolter...