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1994
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
An Ontology of Meta-Level Categories
We focus in this paper on some meta-level ontological distinctions among unary predicates, like those between concepts and assertional properties. Three are the main contributions...
Nicola Guarino, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele ...
AUSAI
1999
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Feasibility of Optimised Disjunctive Reasoning for Approximate Matching
Abstract. Description logics are powerful knowledge representation systems providing well-founded and computationally tractable classification reasoning. However recognition of in...
Ian Horrocks, Lin Padgham, Laura Thomson
TPLP
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Towards closed world reasoning in dynamic open worlds
The need for integration of ontologies with nonmonotonic rules has been gaining importance in a number of areas, such as the Semantic Web. A number of researchers addressed this p...
Martin Slota, João Leite
AUSAI
2003
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Decidability of Propositionally Quantified Logics of Knowledge
Abstract. Logics of knowledge have important applications for reasoning about security protocols and multi-agent systems. We extend the semantics for the logic of necessity with lo...
Tim French
DLOG
2003
14 years 11 months ago
From Description Logic Provers to Knowledge Representation Systems
A description-logic based knowledge representation system is more than an inference engine for a particular description logic. A knowledge representation system must provide a num...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider