Exploiting Tractable Fuzzy and Crisp Reasoning in Ontology Applications

Author

Pan, Jeff Z. ; Thomas, Edward ; Ren, Yuan ; Taylor, Stuart

Author_Institution

Univ. of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

2012

fDate

5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

53

Abstract

The Semantic Web movement has led to the publication of thousands of ontologies online. These ontologies present and mediate information and knowledge on the Semantic Web. How to provide tractable reasoning services for fuzzy and crisp ontologies has been a pressing research problem over the last five years. In this paper, we present a reusable semantic infrastructure that comprises a tractable reasoning system TrOWL, an ontological search engine ONTOSEARCH2 and a folksonomy extension component Taggr. We show that such an infrastructure can be used to support different ontology applications with tractable reasoning services by making use of tractable profiles in OWL 2 and some of their fuzzy extension.

Keywords

fuzzy reasoning; knowledge representation languages; ontologies (artificial intelligence); search engines; semantic Web; software reusability; ONTOSEARCH2 search engine; OWL 2; Taggr; TrOWL; online ontologies; ontological search engine; ontology applications; reusable semantic infrastructure; semantic Web; tractable crisp reasoning; tractable fuzzy reasoning; tractable reasoning system; Approximation methods; Cognition; Information analysis; OWL; Ontologies; Semantic Web; Tagging;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1556-603X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCI.2012.2188588

Filename

6183739