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A Simple Parallel Reasoning System for the \(\mathcal{ALC}\) Description Logic

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In this paper we present a simple, tableau-based, parallel reasoning system for the \(\mathcal{ALC}\) description logic. The system is built in relational model in the Oz language and has a form of a short program comprising the implementation of tableau rules. The program can be executed according to various strategies, particularly in parallel on distributed machines. For this purpose, we use a parallel search engine available in the Mozart environment. We describe results of experiments for estimating the speedup obtained by parallel processing.

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Meissner, A. (2009). A Simple Parallel Reasoning System for the \(\mathcal{ALC}\) Description Logic. In: Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R., Chen, SM. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems. ICCCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04441-0_36

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