OWL-Eu: Adding customised datatypes into OWL

Jeff Z. Pan; Ian Horrocks

doi:10.1016/j.websem.2005.08.001

OWL-Eu: Adding customised datatypes into OWL

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Although OWL is rather expressive, it has a very serious limitation on datatypes; i.e., it does not support customised datatypes. It has been pointed out that many potential users will not adopt OWL unless this limitation is overcome, and the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Development Working Group has set up a task force to address this issue. This paper makes the following two contributions: (i) it provides a brief summary of OWL-related datatype formalisms, and (ii) it provides a decidable extension of OWL DL, called OWL-Eu, that supports customised datatypes. A detailed proof of the decidability of OWL-Eu is presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29-39
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Web Semantics
Volume	4
Issue number	1
Early online date	30 Sept 2005
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2005.08.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2006

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Ontologies
Semantic Web
Description Logics
Customised Datatypes
Unary datatype groups

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