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For realizing the Semantic Web vision, extensive work is underway for getting the layers of its conceived architecture ready. Given that the Ontology Layer has reached a certain level of maturity with W3C recommendations such as RDF and the OWL Web Ontology Language, current interest focuses on the Rules Layer and its integration with the Ontology Layer. Several proposals have been made for solving this problem, which does not have a straightforward solution due to various obstacles. One of them is the fact that evaluation principles like the closed-world assumption, which is common in rule languages, are usually not adopted in ontologies. Furthermore, naively adding rules to ontologies raises undecidability issues. In this paper, after giving a brief overview about the current state of the Semantic-Web stack and its components, we will discuss nonmonotonic logic programs under the answer-set semantics as a possible formalism of choice for realizing the Rules Layer. We will briefly discuss open issues in combining rules and ontologies, and survey some existing proposals to facilitate reasoning with rules and ontologies. We will then focus on description-logic programs (or dl-programs, for short), which realize a transparent integration of rules and ontologies supported by existing reasoning engines, based on the answer-set semantics. We will further discuss a generalization of dl-programs, viz.hex-programs, which offer access to different ontologies as well as higher-order language constructs.
Keywords
- Logic Program
- Resource Description Framework
- Logic Programming
- Description Logic
- Resource Description Framework Graph
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This research has been partially supported by the European Commission within the FP6 project REWERSE (IST 506779, http://rewerse.net), by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project P17212-N04, and by the CICyT of Spain project TIC-2003-9001-C02.
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Eiter, T., Ianni, G., Polleres, A., Schindlauer, R., Tompits, H. (2006). Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies. In: Barahona, P., Bry, F., Franconi, E., Henze, N., Sattler, U. (eds) Reasoning Web. Reasoning Web 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11837787_4
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