We consider interval measurement logic IML, a sublogic of Zhou and Hansen's interval logic, with measurement functions which provide real-valued measurement of some aspect of ...
Stable belief sets were introduced by R. Stalnaker in the early ’80s, as a formal representation of the epistemic state for an ideal introspective agent. This notion motivated M...
Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precise...
An important reasoning task, in addition to the standard DL reasoning services, is conjunctive query answering. In this paper, we present a decision procedure for conjunctive query...
The standardization of the second generation Web Ontology Language, OWL, leaves a crucial issue for Web-based ontologies unsatisfactorily resolved: how to represent and reason with...