Distributed Instance Retrieval in Representation Framework

George M. Santipantakis¹ and George A. Vouros²

¹ICSD, University of the Aegean, Greece

²Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece

Abstract. While there has been a great deal of work concerning distributed reasoning with ontologies, in most cases either only TBox reasoning is concerned, or ABox reasoning is supported for languages of limited expressivity. To a greater extent than other representation frameworks, the proposed framework allows peers to establish concept-to-concept semantic correspondences to acquaintances’ ontologies via bridge rules, and relate individuals by equivalence correspondences or link assertions for the fragment of Description Logics. The paper presents and proposes an algorithm for the retrieval of individuals in a distributed setting.

LNAI 7297, p. 141 ff.

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