Abstract. We examine the possibility of applying knowledge representation and automated reasoning in the context of philosophical ontology. For this purpose, we use the axioms and ...
Language is primarily a physical, and more particularly a biological phenomenon. To say that it is primarily so is to say that that is how, in the first instance, it presents itse...
A concept language with role intersection and number restriction is defined and its modal equivalent is provided. The main reasoning tasks of satisfiability and subsumption checkin...
In this paper, we tackle the satisfiability problem for multi-context systems. First, we establish a satisfiability algorithm based on an encoding into propositional logic. Then, w...
These notes discuss formalizing contexts as first class objects. The basic relation is ist(c, p). It asserts that the proposition p is true in the context c. The most important f...