Reasoning and change management in modular fuzzy ontologies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 13975-13986

  Jiang, Yuncheng ^a,b   Tang, Yong ^a   Chen, Qimai ^a   Wang, Ju ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^c GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Description logics; Distributed description logics; Fuzzy description logics; Fuzzy ontologies; Modular ontologies; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTION LOGIC; DISTRIBUTED DESCRIPTION LOGIC; FUZZY DESCRIPTION LOGIC; FUZZY ONTOLOGY; MODULAR ONTOLOGIES;

DATA DESCRIPTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79960014528     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.205     Document Type: Article

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