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The Power of Semantic Rules in Rulelog: Fundamentals and Recent Progress (Extended Abstract of Tutorial Presentation)

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In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamental concepts and recent progress in the area of Rulelog, a leading approach to semantic rules knowledge representation and reasoning.

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    http://ruleml.org/rif/rulelog/rif/RIF-Rulelog.html.

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    http://www.ruleml.org.

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    http://www.w3.org.

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    http://coherentknowledge.com/ergo-suite-platform-technology/.

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    http://coherentknowledge.com.

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    http://flora.sourceforge.net.

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Grosof, B.N., Kifer, M., Fodor, P. (2015). The Power of Semantic Rules in Rulelog: Fundamentals and Recent Progress (Extended Abstract of Tutorial Presentation). In: Faber, W., Paschke, A. (eds) Reasoning Web. Web Logic Rules. Reasoning Web 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21768-0_7

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