A general logical framework is presented to represent speech acts that have institutional effects. It is based on the concepts of the Speech Act Theory and takes the form of the FI...
Well Founded Semantics is adequate to capture nonmonotonic reasoning if we interpret the Well Founded model of a program P as a (possibly incomplete) view of the world. Thus the W...
Abstract. This paper studies a technique for mapping ALCI knowledge bases into ALC. Worst-case optimal tableau-based procedures for the satisfiability/consistency problem w.r.t. g...
Abstract. To make ABox reasoning scalable for large ABoxes in description logic (DL) knowledge bases, we develop a method for partitioning the ABox so that specific kinds of reaso...
Enabling the Semantic Web requires solving the semantic heterogeneity problem, for which ontology matching methods have been proposed. These methods rely on similarity measures tha...