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The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, in his opus Dialectique de la Durée, wrote: “Without reasoning, memory is incomplete and inefficient”. So is the World Wide Web. The myriad of data published on the Internet and the Web constitutes an unprecedented global electronic collective memory, which, in its turn, compels the necessary modeling and reasoning capabilities.
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Bartenstein, O., Bressan, S. (2003). Introduction to Part I: Web-Languages and Logic. In: Bartenstein, O., Geske, U., Hannebauer, M., Yoshie, O. (eds) Web Knowledge Management and Decision Support. INAP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36524-9_1
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