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Journal of Logic and Computation Advance Access originally published online on September 5, 2008
Journal of Logic and Computation 2009 19(5):721-743; doi:10.1093/logcom/exn048
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This article appears in the following Journal of Logic and Computation issue: Special Issue: Recent Advances in Ontology Dynamics [View the issue table of contents]

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Base Revision for Ontology Debugging

Márcio M. Ribeiro and Renata Wassermann

Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
E-mail: marciomr{at}ime.usp.br,renata{at}ime.usp.br

Received 11 November 2007.


  Abstract

Belief Revision deals with the problem of adding new information to a knowledge base in a consistent way. Ontology Debugging, on the other hand, aims to find the axioms in a terminological knowledge base which caused the base to become inconsistent. In this article, we propose a belief revision approach in order to find and repair inconsistencies in ontologies represented in some description logic (DL). As the usual belief revision operators cannot be directly applied to DLs, we propose new operators that can be used with more general logics and show that, in particular, they can be applied to the logics underlying OWL-DL and Lite.

Keywords: Belief Revision; Ontology Evolution; Description Logics


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