We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
In previous work, Levesque proposed an extension to classical databases that would allow for a certain form of incomplete first-order knowledge. Since this extension was suffici...
In joint work with Peter O’Hearn and others, based on early ideas of Burstall, we have developed an extension of Hoare logic that permits reasoning about low-level imperative pr...
Abstract. This essay describes fuzzy CARIN, a knowledge representation language combining fuzzy description logics with Horn rules. Fuzzy CARIN integrates the management of fuzzy l...
Theofilos P. Mailis, Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos B. S...
In description logics, concrete domains are used to model concrete properties such as weight, name, or age, having concrete values such as integers or strings, with built-in predic...