The latest ontology languages can be translated into a description logic (DL), thus providing them with a formal semantics and associated reasoning procedures. We introduce the or...
In the context of open environments like the Semantic Web, knowledge-based applications with autonomous knowledge sources have recently gained increased interest. For such sources...
Tina Froehner, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß...
Several applications require reasoning over autonomously developed ontologies. Initially conceived to explicit the semantics of a certain domain, these ontologies become a powerfu...
The ability to deal with inconsistencies and to evaluate the impact of possible solutions for resolving inconsistencies are of the utmost importance in real world ontology applicat...
Joey Sik Chun Lam, Derek H. Sleeman, Jeff Z. Pan, ...
Abstract. Inconsistent contexts are death-wounds which usually result in contextaware applications' incongruous behaviors and users' perplexed feelings, therefore the ben...
Yingyi Bu, Shaxun Chen, Jun Li, XianPing Tao, Jian...