A serious shortcoming of many Description Logic based knowledge representation systems is the inadequacy of their query languages. In this paper we present a novel technique that ...
Ontologies play a crucial role in the development of the Semantic Web as a means for defining shared terms in web resources. They are formulated in web ontology languages, which a...
We introduce a description language for specifying partial ordering relations over concept descriptions in description logics, and show how the language can be used in combination ...
Jeffrey Pound, Lubomir Stanchev, David Toman, Gran...
We propose a framework to compute the utility of a proposal w.r.t. a preference set in a negotiation process. In particular, we refer to preferences expressed as weighted formulas ...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco M. Doni...
Effective systems for expressive description logics require a heavily-optimised subsumption checker incorporating a range of optimisation techniques. Because of the correspondence...