A combination of open and closed-world reasoning (usually called local closed world reasoning) is a desirable capability of knowledge representation formalisms for Semantic Web app...
Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
To ensure the re-use of domain ontologies the usual approach relies on a pivot language, e.g., Kif, intoandfromwhich the domainontologyis translated. This requires several distinc...
We provide complete axiomatizations for several fragments of XPath: sets of equivalences from which every other valid equivalence is derivable. Specifically, we axiomatize downwar...
Abstract. We study the problem of evolution for Knowledge Bases (KBs) expressed in Description Logics (DLs) of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the t...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...