Ontologies are more than an elaborate approach to the definition and classification of information. They play a vital role in various web-oriented applications that makes a corr...
In this paper we formalise compilation of the conjunctive bodies of a restricted class of Horn rules into updates on terminologies. This involves a pre-processing of the graphs re...
We present lower bounds on the computational complexity of satisfiability and subsumption in several description logics. We interpret these lower bounds as coming from different...
In a previous paper we have investigated subsumption in the presence of terminological cycles for the description logic EL, which allows conjunctions, existential restrictions, an...
We consider description logic knowledge bases in which the ABox can contain Boolean combinations of traditional ABox assertions (represented as clauses or sequents). A linear redu...
Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn, Bernadette Mart&...