Abstract. Unlike people, household robots cannot rely on commonsense knowledge when accomplishing everyday tasks. We believe that this is one of the reasons why they perform poorly...
This paper examines a new technique based on tableau, that allows one to introduce composition of roles from the right hand side of complex role inclusion axioms (RIAs). Our motiva...
In this paper, we present a reasoner capable of epistemic inferences in SROIQ knowledge bases. We first identify some counter intuitive effects of imposing the traditional semant...
Developing applications that make effective use of machine-readable knowledge sources as promised by the Semantic Web vision is attracting much of current research interest; this v...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...