Abstract. One of the most frequently used inference services of description logic reasoners classifies all named classes of OWL ontologies into a subsumption hierarchy. Due to emer...
Distributed Description Logics (DDL) enable reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping, called bridge rules. Bridge rules map concepts of a s...
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements in integration eorts, however there ha...
A concept learning framework for terminological representations is introduced. It is grounded on a method for inducing logic decision trees as an adaptation of the classic tree in...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...