This paper gives an account of how traditional metadata application profiles are related to Web ontologies and Description Logics. It is shown that metadata profiles can be formal...
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Georgia D. Solomou
DTD and its instance have been considered the standard for data representation and information exchange format on the current web. However, when coming to the next generation of w...
In this paper we present a fuzzy version of SHOIN(D), the corresponding Description Logic of the ontology description language OWL DL. We show that the representation and reasonin...
We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL 2 with nominal schemas which can be used like“variable nominal classes”within axioms. This feature allows ontology langua...
The wide scale usage of OWL for the formalization of real-world ontologies is currently influenced by important limitations which concern both its expressivity and the efficiency ...