TROn - Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies

Description: 

The Semantic Web is based on describing the meaning - or semantics - of data on the Web by means of metadata - data describing other data - in the form of ontologies. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has made several recommended standards for ontology languages which differ in expressivity and ease of use. Central to these languages is that they come with a formal semantics, expressed in model-theoretic terms, which enables access to implicit knowledge by automated reasoning. Progress in the adoption of reasoning for ontology languages in practice is currently being made, but several obstacles remain to be overcome for wide adoption on the Web. In this project, we investigate the use of tractable and other ontology languages from several perspectives, with a focus on extending description logics based ontology languages around OWL with further capabilities, while staying tractable if possible. Some of the aspects considered include the integration of rules languages with OWL, paraconsistent and non-monotonic reasoning, ontology modeling advances in particular related to geoscience applications, and reasoning algorithms and tools.

PI Pascal Hitzler

NSF award abstract

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1017225. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

(last update: December 4, 2017)

Funding Agency: 

National Science Foundation Award Number 1017225

From: 

September, 2010

To: 

August, 2017

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