We present a resolution-based decision procedure for the description logic SHOIQ--the logic underlying the Semantic Web ontology language OWL-DL. Our procedure is goal-oriented, an...
Least Common Subsumers in Description Logics have shown their usefulness for discovering commonalities among all concepts of a collection. Several applications are nevertheless foc...
Simona Colucci, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. ...
Practical applications of description logics (DLs) in knowledge-based systems have forced us to introduce the following features which are absent from existing DLs: • allowing a...
In this paper a TV recommender system called AVATAR (AdVAnce Telematic search of Audiovisual contents by semantic Reasoning) is presented. This tool uses the experience gained in ...
Model-based diagnosis of technical systems requires both a simulation machinery and a logic calculus. The former is responsible for the system's behavior analysis, the latter...