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A Fuzzy Description Logic with Hedges as Concept Modifiers

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This paper presents a fuzzy description logic, where primitive concepts are modified by means of hedges, and defines a decision procedure for the unsatisfiability problem in , and discusses truth bounds, expressivity as well as complexity issues.
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In this paper we present a fuzzy description logic , where primitive concepts are modified by means of hedges. is strictly more expressive than Fuzzydefined in [8]. We show that given a linearly ordered set of hedges primitive concepts can be modified to any desired degree by prefixing them with appropriate chains of hedges. Furthermore, we define a decision procedure for the unsatisfiability problem in , and discuss truth bounds, expressivity as well as complexity issues.

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