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From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: the making of a Web Ontology Language

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This paper discusses how the philosophy and features of OWL can be traced back to these older formalisms, with modifications driven by several other constraints on OWL.
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This article is published in Journal of Web Semantics.The article was published on 2003-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1630 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: OWL-S & Semantic Web Rule Language.

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Resource Description Framework (RDF)

TL;DR: An introduction to RDF and its related vocabulary definition language RDF Schema is provided, and its relationship with the OWL Web Ontology Language is explained.
Proceedings Article

Pushing the EL envelope

TL;DR: This work identifies a set of expressive means that can be added to EL without sacrificing tractability, and shows that basically all other additions of typical DL constructors to EL with GCIs make subsumption intractable, and in most cases even EXPTIME-complete.
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A survey of context modelling and reasoning techniques

TL;DR: The requirements that context modelling and reasoning techniques should meet are discussed, including the modelling of a variety ofcontext information types and their relationships, of situations as abstractions of context information facts, of histories of contextInformation, and of uncertainty of context Information.
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FaCT++ description logic reasoner : System description

TL;DR: FaCT++ as discussed by the authors implements a tableaux decision procedure for the well known SHOIQ description logic, with additional support for datatypes, including strings and integers, and can be used to provide reasoning services for ontology engineering tools supporting the OWL DL ontology language.
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The protégé OWL plugin: an open development environment for semantic web applications

TL;DR: The architecture of the OWL Plugin is described, the most important features are walked through, and some of the design decisions are discussed.
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OWL Web Ontology Language - Reference

TL;DR: This document contains a structured informal description of the full set of {owL} language constructs and is meant to serve as a reference for {OWL} users who want to construct {OWl} ontologies.

RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0 : RDF Schema. W3C Proposed Recommendation

D. Brickley
TL;DR: The Resource Description Framework (RDF) as mentioned in this paper is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. This specification defines a vocabulary for this purpose and defines other built-in RDF vocabulary initially specified in the RDF Model and Syntax Specification.
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Semantic Web services

TL;DR: The authors propose the markup of Web services in the DAML family of Semantic Web markup languages, which enables a wide variety of agent technologies for automated Web service discovery, execution, composition and interoperation.
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The Description Logic Handbook

TL;DR: This introduction presents the main motivations for the development of Description Logics as a formalism for representing knowledge, as well as some important basic notions underlying all systems that have been created in the DL tradition.
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