Much has been written of the facilities for ontology building and reasoning offered for ontologies expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Less has been written about how th...
We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
Biomedical ontologies provide a commonly accepted scheme for the characterization of biological concepts that enable knowledge sharing and integration. Updating and maintaining an ...
In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
We present a novel approach to describe and reason about stateless information processing services. It can be seen as an extension of standard descriptions which makes explicit th...
Duncan Hull, Evgeny Zolin, Andrey Bovykin, Ian Hor...