Fuzzy ontology representation using OWL 2

AbstractThe need to deal with vague information in Semantic Web languages is rising in importance and, thus, calls for a standard way to represent such information. We may address this issue by either extending current Semantic Web languages to cope with vagueness, or by providing a procedure to represent such information within current standard languages and tools. In this work, we follow the latter approach, by identifying the syntactic differences that a fuzzy ontology language has to cope with, and by proposing a concrete methodology to represent fuzzy ontologies using OWL 2 annotation properties. We also report on some prototypical implementations: a plug-in to edit fuzzy ontologies using OWL 2 annotations and some parsers that translate fuzzy ontologies represented using our methodology into the languages supported by some reasoners

Tractable Reasoning Based on the Fuzzy EL ++ Algorithm

Abstract. Fuzzy Description Logics (f-DLs) are extensions of classic DLs that are capable of representing and reasoning about imprecise and vague knowledge. Though reasoning algorithms for very expressive fuzzy DLs have been explored, an open issue in the fuzzy DL community is the study of tractable systems. In this paper we introduce the fuzzy extension of EL ++, we provide its syntax and semantics together with a reasoning algorithm for the fuzzy concept subsumption problem, in which other problems related to fuzzy DLs can be reduced.