Finding matching answers to a given request is hard, in particular if the objective is to find
the most suitable partner. This especially holds in the context of the Semantic Web and its …

Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation
and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the ontology layer of …

Practical description logic systems play an evergrowing role for knowledge representation
and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the often-discussed …

Abstract The Semantic Web is a collection of many different data pages. It is still unclear how
to answer a query posed on the Semantic Web using formal methods. Currently, the main …

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 …

Abstract In Description Logics (DL) knowledge bases (KBs), information is typically captured
by clear-cut concepts. For many practical applications querying the KB by crisp concepts is …

It has been argued that matchmaking in electronic markets can benefit from the use of
semantic web technologies. In particular, OWL has been proposed as a suitable language …

Matchmaking is an important aspect of E-Commerce interactions. The current trend in B2B E-
Commerce automation is towards complex interactions for service provision. In this context …

In semantic matchmaking processes it is often useful, when the obtained match is not full, to
provide explanations for the mismatch, to leverage further interaction and/or modifying the …

In this paper we investigate the use of conceptual descriptions based on description logics
for contentbased information retrieval and present several innovative contributions. We …