In this paper, we consider existing approaches to ontology definition and validation. Popular techniques include the use of domain experts or reliance on formal logic. We consider...
Any non-trivial top-level ontology should take temporal notions into account. The details of how this should be done, however, are frequently debated. In this paper it is argued th...
Abstract. In a previous paper, we have introduced an approach for extending both the terminological and the assertional part of a Description Logic knowledge base by using informat...
We present FixIt(ALC), a novel procedure for deciding knowledge base (KB) satisfiability in the Fuzzy Description Logic (FDL) ALC. FixIt(ALC) does not search for tree-structured m...
In description logics (DLs), concrete domains are used for defining concepts based on concrete qualities of their instances such as the weight, age, duration, and spatial extensio...