Recent Advances in Integrating OWL and Rules

TitleRecent Advances in Integrating OWL and Rules
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsKnorr, M, Carral, D, Hitzler, P, Krisnadhi, A, Maier, F, Wang, C
EditorKrötzsch, M, Straccia, U
Conference NameWeb Reasoning and Rule Systems - 6th International Conference, RR 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2012. Proceedings
Volume7497
Pagination225-228
Date Published09/2012
PublisherSpringer
Conference LocationAustria, Vienna
Keywordsdescription logics, OWL, Rules
Abstract

As part of the quest for a unifying logic for the Semantic Web Technology Stack, a central issue is finding suitable ways of integrating description logics based on the Web Ontology Language (OWL) with rule-based approaches based on logic programming. Such integration is difficult since naive approaches typically result in the violation of one or more desirable design principles. For example, while both OWL 2 DL and RIF Core (a dialect of the Rule Interchange Format RIF) are decidable, their naive union is not, unless carefully chosen syntactic restrictions are applied.

We report on recent advances and ongoing work by the authors in integrating OWL and rulesWe take an OWL-centric perspective, which means that we take OWL 2 DL as a starting point and pursue the question of how features of rulebased formalisms can be added without jeopardizing decidability. We also report on incorporating the closed world assumption and on reasoning algorithms. This paper essentially serves as an entry point to the original papers, to which we will refer throughout, where detailed expositions of the results can be found.

URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33203-6_20
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-33203-6_20
Refereed DesignationRefereed

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