Rules and Defeasible Reasoning on the Semantic Web

This paper discusses some issues related to the use of rules for the Semantic Web. We argue that rule formalisms and rule-based technologies have to offer a lot for the Semantic Web. In particular, they allow a simple treatment of defeasible reasoning, which is essential for being able to capture ma...

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Veröffentlicht in:Lecture notes in computer science 2003, p.111-120
Hauptverfasser: Antoniou, Grigoris, Wagner, Gerd
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper discusses some issues related to the use of rules for the Semantic Web. We argue that rule formalisms and rule-based technologies have to offer a lot for the Semantic Web. In particular, they allow a simple treatment of defeasible reasoning, which is essential for being able to capture many forms of commonsense policies and specifications.
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-39715-1_8