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DAML+OIL: A Reason-able Web Ontology Language

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Ontologies are set to play a key role in the “Semantic Web”, extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms. DAML+OIL is an ontology language specifically designed for use on the Web; it exploits existing Web standards (XML and RDF), adding the familiar ontological primitives of object oriented and frame based systems, and the formal rigor of a very expressive description logic. The logical basis of the language means that reasoning services can be provided, both to support ontology design and to make DAML+OIL described Web resources more accessible to automated processes.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Ian Horrocks

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg

    Christian S. Jensen  & Simonas Šaltenis  & 

  2. Business and Information Technology Dept., CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

    Keith G. Jeffery

  3. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorny

  4. Department of Information Science, University of Milan, Milan

    Elisa Bertino

  5. Institute of Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich

    Klemens Böhn

  6. Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Aachen

    Matthias Jarke

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Horrocks, I. (2002). DAML+OIL: A Reason-able Web Ontology Language. In: Jensen, C.S., et al. Advances in Database Technology — EDBT 2002. EDBT 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2287. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45876-X_2

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