OWL: A Description Logic Based Ontology Language

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  • Ian Horrocks
چکیده

• An ontology is an engineering artifact: – specific vocabulary used to describe a certain reality – explicit assumptions regarding the intended meaning of the vocabulary. • Thus, an ontology describes a formal specification of a domain: – Shared understanding of a domain of interest – Formal and machine manipulable model of a domain of interest • “An explicit specification of a conceptualisation” [Gruber93] Ontology (in Computer Science) Description Logics • A family of logic based Knowledge Representation formalisms – Descendants of semantic networks – Describe domain in terms of concepts (classes), roles (properties, relationships) and individuals • Distinguished by: – Formal semantics (typically model theoretic • Decidable fragments of first-order logic (FOL) • Closely related to Propositional Modal & Dynamic Logics – Inference services: • Decision procedures for key problems: satisfiability, subsumption, classification, etc. • Implemented systems (highly optimized)

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تاریخ انتشار 2005