Part-Whole Reasoning in an Object-Centered Framework

• Main Author: Lambrix, Patrick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1771
• Subjects: Computer programming.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical logic.; Software engineering.; Programming Techniques.; Artificial Intelligence.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Software Engineering.

In this book, the author develops an object-centered framework with specialized support of the part-of relation based on description logics. These logics are a family of object-centered knowledge representation languages tailored for describing knowledge about concepts and is-a hierarchies of these...