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Contextualized Knowledge Repositories for the Semantic Web

31 Pages Posted: 24 Jun 2018 Publication Status: Accepted

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Luciano Serafini

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Martin Homola

Fondazione Bruno Kessler; Comenius University - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

Abstract

We propose Contextualized Knowledge Repository (CKR): an adaptation of the well studied theories of context for the Semantic Web. A CKR is composed of a set of OWL 2 knowledge bases, which are embedded in a context by a set of qualifying attributes (time, space, topic, etc.) specifying the boundaries within which the knowledge base is assumed to be true. Contexts of a CKR are organized by a hierarchical coverage relation, which enables an effective representation of knowledge and a flexible method for its reuse between the contexts. The paper defines the syntax and the semantics of CKR; shows that concept satisfiability and subsumption are decidable with the complexity upper bound of 2NExpTime, and it also provides a sound and complete natural deduction calculus that serves to characterize the propagation of knowledge between contexts.

Keywords: Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation, Description Logics, Context

Suggested Citation

Serafini, Luciano and Homola, Martin, Contextualized Knowledge Repositories for the Semantic Web (2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3198952 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3198952

Luciano Serafini

Fondazione Bruno Kessler ( email )

Via Sommarive 18
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Trento, 38123
Italy

Martin Homola (Contact Author)

Fondazione Bruno Kessler ( email )

Via Sommarive 18
Povo
Trento, 38123
Italy

Comenius University - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

Mlynská dolina
SK-842 48 Bratislava, 842 48
Slovakia

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