Abstract. Ontology reasoning is an indispensable step to fully exploit the implicit semantics of Semantic Web data. The inherent distribution characteristic of the Semantic Web and...
Temporal reasoning is an important task in many areas of computer science including planning, scheduling, temporal databases and instruction optimisation for compilers. Given a kno...
Matthew Beaumont, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar, Mic...
In order to capture the full fledge semantic of complicated product data model, the expressive language ALCNHR+ K(D) is introduced. It cannot only be able to represent knowledge a...
It is claimed in [45] that first-order theorem provers are not efficient for reasoning with ontologies based on description logics compared to specialised description logic reasone...
When reasoning in description, modal or temporal logics it is often useful to consider axioms representing universal truths in the domain of discourse. Reasoning with respect to a...