The article is meant to be kind of the author's manifesto for the role of logic and deduction within Intellectics. Based on a brief analysis of this role the paper presents a...
Abstract. This paper concerns mechanisms for maintaining the value of an instrumentation predicate (a.k.a. derived predicate or view), defined via a logical formula over core pred...
Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very e...
Sonic1 is the first prototype implementation of non-standard inferences for Description Logics usable via a graphical user interface. The contribution of our implementation is twof...
Description logics (DLs) are a well-understood family of knowledge representation (KR) languages. The notation of DLs has the flavour of a variable-free first order predicate lo...