Optimizing description logic subsumption

Journal of Logic and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-293

  Horrocks, Ian ^a   Patel Schneider, Peter F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SET THEORY;

DESCRIPTION LOGIC SYSTEMS; PROPOSITIONAL MODAL LOGICS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 0032592923     PISSN: 0955792X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/logcom/9.3.267     Document Type: Article

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