TY - BOOK ID - 49788653 TI - An introduction to description logic PY - 2017 SN - 9780521695428 9780521873611 0521695422 9781139025355 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Knowledge representation (Information theory) KW - Conceptual structures (Information theory) KW - Description logics KW - Représentation des connaissances. KW - Programming KW - Computer. Automation KW - Description logics - Textbooks. KW - Représentation des connaissances. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49788653 AB - 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.-- ER -