Motivated by the matchmaking problem in electronic marketplaces, we study abduction in
Description Logics. We devise suitable definitions of the problem, and show how they can …

Description Logics Page 1 Concept Abduction and Contraction in Description Logics Simona
Colucci", Tommaso Di Noia", Eugenio Di Sciascio", Francesco Donini", Marina Mongiello" l: l)i …

Matchmaking arises when supply and demand meet in an electronic marketplace, or when
agents search for a web service to perform some task, or even when recruiting agencies …

In this paper we present a Description Logic approach to extended matchmaking between
Demands and Supplies in an Electronic Marketplace, which allows the semantic-based …

Motivated by the need to extend features of semantic matchmaking between request and
offer descriptions, a model is presented that exploits recently proposed non-standard …

Ontology languages like OWL allow for semantically rich annotation of resources (eg,
products advertised at on-line electronic marketplaces). The description logic (DL) formalism …

Matchmaking in e-marketplaces consists of finding and retrieving promising counterparts for
a given request from the set of available advertisements. This paper proposes the use of …

We present algorithms for Concept Abduction and Concept Contraction, two reasoning
services in Description Logics (DL) recently proposed to model how several supplies fit a …

Trends such as the massive increase in information available via electronic networks, the
use of on-line product data by distributed concurrent engineering teams, and dynamic …

An e-commerce catalog typically comprises of specifications for millions of products. The
search engine receives millions of sales offers from thousands of independent merchants …