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DAML+OIL: A Reason-Able Web Ontology Language

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Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES 2002)

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Ontologies are set to play a key role in the ”Semantic Web”, extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms. DAML+OIL is an ontology language specifically designed for use on the web; it exploits existing web standards (XML and RDF), adding the familiar ontological primitives of object oriented and frame based systems, and the formal rigor of description logics (DLs). The logical basis of the language means that reasoning services can be provided, both to support ontology design and to make DAML+OIL described web resources more accessible to automated processes [2].

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  1. S. Bechhofer, I. Horrocks, C. Goble, and R. Stevens. OilEd: a reason-able ontology editor for the semantic web. In Proc. of KI 2002, number 2174 in LNAI, 2001. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/horrocks/Publications/download/2001/oiled-ki.pdf.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Ian Horrocks

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  1. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-510, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Richard Hull

  3. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-9020, USA

    Sheila McIlraith

  4. School of Info. Technology and Elec. Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

  5. Department of Electronic and Information Science, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jian Yang

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Horrocks, I. (2002). DAML+OIL: A Reason-Able Web Ontology Language. In: Bussler, C., Hull, R., McIlraith, S., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36189-8_13

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