Approaches to inconsistency handling in description-logic based ontologies

  • Authors:
  • David Bell;Guilin Qi;Weiru Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK;Institute AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany;School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK

  • Venue:
  • OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The problem of inconsistency handling in ontologies has recently been attracting a lot of attention. When inconsistency occurs in an ontology, there are mainly two ways to deal with it - we either resolve it or reason with the inconsistent ontology. In this paper, we give a survey of the existing approaches for handling inconsistency in ontologies and analyze their usability. We focus on Description Logics. We give clear examples to illustrate how to use these approaches to deal with practical problems.