%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011 %D 2011 %T A Better Uncle for OWL: Nominal Schemas for Integrating Rules and Ontologies %A Markus Krötzsch %A Frederick Maier %A Adila Krisnadhi %A Pascal Hitzler %E Sadagopan Srinivasan %E Krithi Ramamritham %E Arun Kumar %E M. P. Ravindra %E Elisa Bertino %E Ravi Kumar %K datalog %K Description Logic %K Semantic Web Rule Language %K SROIQ %K tractability %K Web Ontology Language %X We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL 2 with nominal schemas which can be used like "variable nominal classes" within axioms. This feature allows ontology languages to express arbitrary DL-safe rules (as expressible in SWRL or RIF) in their native syntax. We show that adding nominal schemas to OWL 2 does not increase the worst-case reasoning complexity, and we identify a novel tractable language SROELV3(\cap, x) that is versatile enough to capture the lightweight languages OWL EL and OWL RL. %B Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011 %I ACM %P 645-654 %8 03/2011 %@ 978-1-4503-0632-4 %G eng %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1963405.1963496 %R 10.1145/1963405.1963496