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An Approach to Description Logic with Support for Propositional Attitudes and Belief Fusion

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Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I (URSW 2006, URSW 2007, URSW 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 5327))

Abstract

In the (Semantic) Web, the existence or producibility of certain, consensually agreed or authoritative knowledge cannot be assumed, and criteria to judge the trustability and reputation of knowledge sources may not be given. These issues give rise to formalizations of web information which factor in heterogeneous and possibly inconsistent assertions and intentions, and make such heterogeneity explicit and manageable for reasoning mechanisms. Such approaches can provide valuable meta-knowledge in contemporary application fields, like open or distributed ontologies, social software, ranking and recommender systems, and domains with a high amount of controversies, such as politics and culture.

As an approach to this, we introduce a lean formalism for the Semantic Web which allows for the explicit representation of controversial individual and group opinions and goals by means of so-called social contexts, and optionally for the probabilistic belief merging of uncertain or conflicting statements.

Doing so, our approach generalizes concepts such as provenance annotation and voting in the context of ontologies and other kinds of Semantic Web knowledge.

This work is a revised and extended version of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW-06), 2006.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

    Matthias Nickles

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Ruth Cobos

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  1. George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, 22030, Virginia, USA

    Paulo Cesar G. da Costa

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica,, Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Claudia d’Amato

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Nicola Fanizzi

  4. George Mason University, VA 22030, Fairfax, USA

    Kathryn B. Laskey

  5. MIRTE Corporation, M/S H305, 7515 Colshire Drive, VA 22102-7508, McLean, USA

    Kenneth J. Laskey

  6. Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK

    Thomas Lukasiewicz

  7. University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    Matthias Nickles

  8. Convera, Inc., 1921 Gallows Road, Suite 200, VA 22182, Vienna, USA

    Michael Pool

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Nickles, M., Cobos, R. (2008). An Approach to Description Logic with Support for Propositional Attitudes and Belief Fusion. In: da Costa, P.C.G., et al. Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I. URSW URSW URSW 2006 2007 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_8

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