University of Konstanz
Database & Information Systems Group
Prof. Marc H. Scholl

Web Services and Semantic Web

OWL: A Description Logic Based Ontology Language

Abstract

This talk gives an introduction to the description logics (DL) and the DL-based web ontology language OWL developed by the Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group of W3C. It demonstrates the benefits of the ontology reasoning and elaborates on the algorithms for its implementation. Enumeration of the current research challenges in the field concludes the presentation.

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