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Fuzzy Ontologies for the Semantic Web

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It is presented several connections between Fuzzy Logic, the Semantic Web, and its components (Ontologies, Description Logics). It is then introduced and illustrated by an example (“Ontology of Art”) a Fuzzy Ontology structure, Lexicon and Knowledge Base.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. LIF – Biomathématiques et Informatique Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 13385 Cedex 5, Marseille, France

    Elie Sanchez

  2. Division of Electronics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo, 064-0926, Japan

    Takahiro Yamanoi

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  1. The European Center for Counterterrorism Research and Studies Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  2. DISCO, University Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Gabriella Pasi

  3. Computer Science Department, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo

  4. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  5. Research group PLIS: Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

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Sanchez, E., Yamanoi, T. (2006). Fuzzy Ontologies for the Semantic Web. In: Larsen, H.L., Pasi, G., Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766254_59

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