Description Logics: Foundations for Class-based Knowledge Representation

  • Authors:
  • Diego Calvanese;Giuseppe De Giacomo;Maurizio Lenzerini

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LICS '02 Proceedings of the 17th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Class-based languages express knowledge in terms of objects and classes, and have inspired a huge number of formalisms in computer science. Description logics form a family of both class-based and logic-based knowledge representation languages which allow for modeling an application domain in terms of objects, classes and relationships between classes, and for reasoning about them. This paper presents an overview of the research carried out in the lastyears in description logics, with the main goal of illustrating how these logics provide the foundations for class-based knowledge representation formalisms.