Unsatisfiable concepts are a major cause for inconsistencies in Description Logics knowledge bases. Popular methods for repairing such concepts aim to remove or rewrite axioms to r...
We show that feature logic extended by functional uncertainty is decidable, even if one admits cyclic descriptions. We present an algorithm, which solves feature descriptions cont...
Abstract. Semantic similarity measurement gained attention as a methodology for ontology-based information retrieval within GIScience over the last years. Several theories explain ...
In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling languag...
Abstract. We show that the Semantic Web needs a formal semantics for the various kinds of links between ontologies and other documents. We provide a model theoretic semantics that ...