This paper presents a binary format for both storing OWL ontologies and describing changes in OWL ontologies. The format is designed to be a fast to parse and serialise format. It is intended as a low level storage and transmission mechanism rather than an end user exchange syntax. Software to parse and serialise binary OWL has been implemented in the form of OWL API parsers and renderers. Some...

Recent excavations from late Pleistocene to Historical period sites on the islands of Guadeloupe and Saint Martin yielded bones Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). The osteological description remains combined with location fossil-bearing historical accounts show this owl have been present across in periods. This species has identified multiple archaeological sites, including those reported her...

We did a preliminary benchmark on DL reasoners using real world OWL ontologies. First hand experiences on OWL ontologies and reasoning services available to OWL are described and discussed.

Understanding and using the data and knowledge encoded in semantic web documents requires an inference engine. F-OWL is an inference engine for the semantic web language OWL language based on F-logic, an approach to defining kame-based systems in logic. F-OWL is implemented using XSB and Flora-2 and takes full advantage of their features. We describe how F-OWL computes ontology entailment and c...

role in Semantic Web research, with a large number of research efforts underway. Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Semantic Web Languages provides a rigorous and succinct account of the mathematical methods and tools used for representing and reasoning with fuzzy information within Semantic Web languages. The book focuses on the three main streams of Semantic Web languages: • Triple languages RDF ...

The United States military is continuing to research and is beginning to employ OWL-related information representation technologies. The Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal (JEOD) Decision Support System (DSS) is using OWL to present relevant procedural information to warfighters. The United States Air Force (USAF) is experimenting with representing portions of the Foreign Clearance Guide (FCG) i...

Understanding and using the data and knowledge encoded in semantic web documents requires an inference engine. F-OWL is an inference engine for the semantic web language OWL language based on F-logic, an approach to defining kame-based systems in logic. F-OWL is implemented using XSB and Flora-2 and takes full advantage of their features. We describe how F-OWL computes ontology entailment and c...

The development of ontologies involves continuous but relatively small modifications. Existing ontology reasoners, however, do not take advantage of the similarities between different versions of an ontology. In this paper, we propose a technique for incremental reasoning—that is, reasoning that reuses information obtained from previous versions of an ontology—based on the notion of a module. O...