Towards a fuzzy description logic for the semantic web (preliminary report)

  • Authors:
  • U. Straccia

  • Affiliations:
  • ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present a fuzzy version of $\mathcal{SHOIN}$(D), the corresponding Description Logic of the ontology description language OWL DL. We show that the representation and reasoning capabilities of fuzzy $\mathcal{SHOIN}$(D) go clearly beyond classical $\mathcal{SHOIN}$(D). We present its syntax and semantics. Interesting features are that concrete domains are fuzzy and entailment and subsumption relationships may hold to some degree in the unit interval [0,1].