An Introduction to Description Logic
eBook - PDF

An Introduction to Description Logic

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

An Introduction to Description Logic

About this book

Description logics (DLs) have a long tradition in computer science and knowledge representation, being designed so that domain knowledge can be described and so that computers can reason about this knowledge. DLs have recently gained increased importance since they form the logical basis of widely used ontology languages, in particular the web ontology language OWL. Written by four renowned experts, this is the first textbook on description logics. It is suitable for self-study by graduates and as the basis for a university course. Starting from a basic DL, the book introduces the reader to their syntax, semantics, reasoning problems and model theory and discusses the computational complexity of these reasoning problems and algorithms to solve them. It then explores a variety of reasoning techniques, knowledge-based applications and tools and it describes the relationship between DLs and OWL.

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Yes, you can access An Introduction to Description Logic by Franz Baader,Ian Horrocks,Carsten Lutz,Uli Sattler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Databases. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Imprints Page
  5. Contents
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 A Basic Description Logic
  8. 3 A Little Bit of Model Theory
  9. 4 Reasoning in DLs with Tableau Algorithms
  10. 5 Complexity
  11. 6 Reasoning in the EL Family of Description Logics
  12. 7 Query Answering
  13. 8 Ontology Languages and Applications
  14. Appendix: Description Logic Terminology
  15. References
  16. Index