Categorisation of objects into classes is currently supported by (at least) two ‘orthogonal’ methods. In logic-based approaches, classifications are defined through ontologi...
Mikhail Sheremet, Dmitry Tishkovsky, Frank Wolter,...
Experts often disagree about the organization of biological taxa. The shifting definitions of taxonomic names complicate otherwise simple queries concerning these taxa. For examp...
Partial evaluation of logic programs which contain impure predicates poses non-trivial challenges. Impure predicates include those which produce side-effects, raise errors (or exc...
Abstract Description Logics (DLs) are a family of class (concept) based knowledge representation formalisms. They are characterised by the use of various constructors to build comp...
Motivated by the matchmaking problem in electronic marketplaces, we study abduction in Description Logics. We devise suitable definitions of the problem, and show how they can mod...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....