An Extension of Distributed Dynamic Description Logics for the Representation of Heterogeneous Mappings

As a family of dynamic description logics, DDL(X) is constructed by embracing actions into the description logic X, where X represents well-studied description logics ranging from the ALC to the SHOIQ. To efficiently support automated interoperability between ontology-based information systems in distributed environments, we have to design an expressive mapping language to semantically understand resources from remote and heterogeneous systems. Distributed Dynamic Description Logics D3L(X) is a natural generalization of the DDL(X) framework, which is designed to model the distributed dynamically-changing knowledge repositories interconnected by semantic mappings and to accomplish reasoning in distributed, heterogeneous environments. In this paper, we propose an extension of Distributed Dynamic Description Logics D3L(X) and investigate the reasoning mechanisms in D3L(X).