OWL DL vs. OWL Flight: Conceptual Modeling and Reasoning for the Semantic Web
Polleres, Axel Fensel, Dieter
Polleres, Axel
Fensel, Dieter
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/413
https://doi.org/10.13025/21126
https://doi.org/10.13025/21126
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2005
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Jos de Bruijn, Axel Polleres, Rubén Lara, Dieter Fensel "OWL DL vs. OWL Flight: Conceptual Modeling and Reasoning for the Semantic Web", Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), 2005.
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The Semantic Web languages RDFS and OWL have been around for some time now. However, the presence of these languages has not brought the breakthrough of the Semantic Web the creators of the languages had hoped for. OWL has a number of problems in the area of interoperability and us- ability in the context of many practical application scenarios which impede the connection to the Software Engineering and Database communities. In this paper we present OWL Flight, which is loosely based on OWL, but the semantics is grounded in Logic Programming rather than Description Logics, and it borrows the constraint-based modeling style common in databases. This results in different types of modeling primitives and enforces a different style of ontology modeling. We analyze the modeling paradigms of OWL DL and OWL Flight, as well as reasoning tasks supported by both languages. We argue that different applications on the Semantic Web require different styles of modeling and thus both types of languages are required for the Semantic Web.
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