Many tasks within semantic web service discovery can be formalized as reasoning problems related to the partial ordering of subactivity occurrences in a complex activity. We show h...
Many semantic web applications require support for mappings between roles (or properties) defined in multiple independently developed ontology modules. Distributed Description Log...
Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant...
Abstract. We introduce description logic (DL) rules as a new rule-based formalism for knowledge representation in DLs. As a fragment of the Semantic Web Rule Language SWRL, DL rule...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
Abstract. Consistent query answering (CQA) is about formally characterizing and computing semantically correct answers to queries posed to a database that may fail to satisfy certa...