Ontologies logic programming books

The corporate world is poised to adopt the use of ontologies in web applications. Cambridge core programming languages and applied logic an. This attention claims for methods for reusing domain knowledge resources in the development of domain ontologies. Libraries, museums, newspapers, government portals, enterprises, social networking applications, and other communities that manage large collections of books, historical artifacts, news reports, business glossaries, blog entries, and other items can now use vocabularies, using standard formalisms, to leverage the power of linked data. The ability to use background knowledge, as an input to induction algorithm. Philosophy literally wrote the book on that topic before math latched on to it.

Specifically, we define the integer linear programming. An integrated environment for reasoning over ontologies via. More broadly, it studies concepts that directly relate to being, in particular becoming, existence, reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Our system provides the components required to behave as a sparql query. Distributed reasoning with ontologies and rules in order.

The system presented in this paper uses contextual logic programming as a computational hub for representing and reasoning over knowledge modeled by web ontologies, integrating the approach with. Humancentric decisionmaking models for social sciences. In firstorder logic variables refer to things in the world and, furthermore, you can quantify over. The increasing use of ontologies highlights the need for a library for working with ontologies that is efficient, accessible from various programming languages, and compatible with common computational platforms. There are, of course, lots of other books on knowledge representation, logic, xml, databases, etc, that are all relevant for the semantic web, but. An ontology analysis implementation in constraint logic programming abstract. Indeed, there are books about ontology engineering, but they.

Major logic programming language families include prolog, answer set programming asp and datalog. The use of ontologies in practice ebook by kevin rudolph. Inductive logic programming, relational databases, ontologies, description logics, hybrid knowledge representation and reasoning systems. Colore is an open repository of firstorder ontologies in common logic with formal links between ontologies in. The newsletter is a quarterly publication, in the months march, june, september, and december a new issue is posted. Foundations of deductive databases and logic programming. Concerning the first point, a challenging issue is how to adapt or extend answer set programming to represent ontological knowledge. Both logic and ontology are diverse fields within philosophy and, partly because of this, there is not one single philosophical problem about the relation between them. The developer can then handle both ontologies and logicbased reasoning. Building rules on top of ontologies for the semantic web with. Ontologies for corporate web applications by obrst, leo.

Non monotonic reasoning for inconsistency handling and exception handling and expressing default negations in ontologies. Logic databases are based on the formalisms of first order logic fol. Description logics dl are logics serving primarily for formal description of concepts and roles relations. A learningbased ontology alignment approach using inductive logic.

This raises, in particular, the issue of interlinking rules and ontologies. We describe a system in which contextual logic programming is used as a mediator for knowledge modeled by ontologies. Any program written in a logic programming language is a set of sentences in logical form, expressing facts and rules about some problem domain. Ontologies generally describe specific domains such as scientific research areas.

Logic programming is a style of programming in which programs take the form of sets of sentences in the language of symbolic logic. To be interoperable, an ontology needs an overarching basic formal ontology the usgs has one as is explained in this ambitious new book. Generating generalized logical rules based on background knowledge as mappings. There have been collaborative initiatives that aimed for a. Integrated development environment for answer set programming. Owl dl is so named due to its correspondence with description logic, a field of. Here, the author proposes vagueness description with metalevel logic programming to describe vague ontologies. Building rules on top of ontologies is the ultimate goal of the logical layer of the semantic web. Home browse by title books foundations of logic programming. The ability to use background knowledge, as an input to. Ontologies establish a common and unambiguous terminology for knowledge formal representation and semi automatic reasoning, being gradually applied in semantic web services. It is suitable as a textbook at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Logic and ontology stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.

Programming in logic without logic programming theory. The inference tool racer and the programming language prolog were tested and compared to see if they can serve as a computer assisted approach in this scenario. Answer set programming for the semantic web springerlink. The integration of knowledge bases in classical firstorder logic and in particular of ontologies in various description logics with rule languages rooted in logic programming is receiving considerable attention in the context of current efforts around semanticweb languages. How to decide query containment under constraints using a description logic. Languages that allow the semantic annotation of information are becoming widely available. Logic category studies and exercises in formal logic by john neville keynes the macmillan company, 1906 in addition to a detailed exposition of certain portions of formal logic, the following pages contain a number of problems worked out in detail and unsolved problems, by means of which the student may test his command over logical processes. Ontologies resemble class hierarchies in objectoriented programming but there are several. Thus, merely using ontologies, like using xml, does not reduce heterogeneity. Euzenat and shvaikos book is devoted to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. Programming in logic without logic programming theory and. The larger is a kdb, the smaller the possibility of. Abductive logic programming alp has been exploited to formalize societies of agents, commitments and norms, taking advantage from alp operational support as a static or dynamic verification tool. I dont have any specific recommendations but look to philosophy sections for books on logic.

Clocksin shelved 4 times as logic programming avg rating 3. Ontologies have multiple advantages over other types of metadata organization. Can resolve structural inconsistencies between two different ontologies. The science of artificial intelligence has provided the methods and tools needed for building ontologies and programming computer. Traditional objectoriented programming languages can be di. Abductive logic programming for normative reasoning and. In this article, we evaluate approaches using logic reasoning applied to an ontology for literary characters. Research paper undergraduate from the year 2015 in the subject computer science applied, grade. Popular logic programming books showing of 30 programming in prolog.

A secondary aim is to provide handson experience in ontology development that illustrate the theory. His main fields of interest include declarative programming logic programming, constraint programming, the prolog language. An application of logic programming vangelis vassilades, jan wielemaker, chris mungall abstract. An introduction to description logic and millions of other books are available for. Almashaykhi2 abstract ontology have become a relevant representation formalism and many application domains are considering adopting them. In michel, parigot and andrei, voronkov, editors, proc. The field at the interface of logic programming and data bases, known by such names as deductive database systems, expert database systems, and knowledgebase systems, has advanced tremendously in recent years. Ontologies also provide descriptive properties of those objects and their relationships. In order to address these problems, we consider distributed reasoning services for ontologies and rules with decidable and effective computation. To appear in theory and practice of logic programming tplp. His definitive new book shows how techniques of artificial intelligence.

This book is my attempt at providing the rst textbook for an introduction in ontology engineering. A number of important philosophical problems are at the intersection of logic and ontology. He is involved in the development of the semantic web indexing project sindice. Building ontologies with basic formal ontology bobfo is a 200 page introduction to the subject by robert arp, barry smith and andrew spear. On the mathematics of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relationthat on the level of the primordial process, the desire for lifeinitself clothes itself in the sex drivebelongs to the particularity of being human. Read the use of ontologies in practice by kevin rudolph available from rakuten kobo. What are the best books for improving programming logic. I have read many papers and books about ontologies and i am trying to figure out that how they are used in a real project. Description logics introduction to ontologies and semantic. Recently, however, a field called ontology has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. In this paper, we describe multiple ordersorted logic programming that transfers rigid properties from knowledge bases.

Flogic is a formalism that integrates logic with objectoriented programming. Resolving logical contradictions in description logic. Ontology engineering synthesis lectures on the semantic web. Most of the published material on the topic is scattered through journal articles and conference proceedings. An ontology defines a common vocabulary for researchers who need to share information in a. Indeed, there are books about ontology engineering, but they either promote one speci c ontology or methodology only, are handbooks, or are conference proceedings. An axiom description can be very exact crisp axiom or exact fuzzy axiom if its knowledge is complete, otherwise it is inexact vague axiom if its knowledge is incomplete.

Part of the lecture notes in computer science book series lncs, volume 7994. The book contains a large number of examples and exercises. On querying ontologies with contextual logic programming. The developer can then handle both ontologies and logic based reasoning over them by. The two fields have more in common than just their name. Description and reasoning for vague ontologies using logic. A new approach to find ontology mapping using inductive logic programming.

Part of the lecture notes in computer science book series lncs, volume 4670. Over the years, there has been growing interest in logic programming due to applications in deductive databases, automated worksheets, enterprise management business rules, computational law, and general game playing. He is the author and coauthor of several related conference papers and books. This is the electronic newsletter of the association for logic programming. Liu f and tran d fixpoint semantics and completeness of the computational model for fuzzy linguistic logic programming proceedings of the 4th international conference. The first three chapters are devoted to logic, ontology, and computable models of reality. Part of the lecture notes in computer science book series lncs, volume 3564. Discover the best computer programming logic in best sellers. John sowa integrates logic, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science into. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. F logic programming is an expressive rulebased formalismbased on f logic 15 that allows for objectoriented constructs and higherorder features, as well negation as failure. For example how the ontology for a soccer player robot can be defined and.

So a major goal of this book is to convey ontology languages in detail. Logic programming is a programming paradigm which is largely based on formal logic. The web ontology language, owl, is the latest standard in logic based ontology languages. Ijcai workshop ontologies and logic programming for. Logic programming is based on a subset of firstorder logic, namely horn logic, but uses a slightly different semantics and can be extended with nonmonotonic negation. Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality. A learningbased ontology alignment approach using inductive. Most math books on the topic will be particularly unwieldy and overly broad to what a programmer might need. On the relationship between description logicbased and flogicbased ontologies, fundamenta. Answer set programming asp 11,12,14, also called aprolog 15,16,17, is a.

How to improve expressing domain semantics in ontologies. In humans and humans alone, sexuality is embodied in desirein the primordial desire for lifeasrelation. Ontologies are metadata schemas, providing a controlled vocabulary. Also, they can be interpreted within a prooftheoretic approach to logical consequence from the logic programming paradigm lloyd, 1987. This international workshop is one of the joint ontology workshops jowo 2015 a. An integrated environment for reasoning over ontologies via logic programming.

Programming in logic without logic programming volume 16 special issue robert kowalski, fariba sadri. An ontology analysis implementation in constraint logic. Although f logic programming takes a prominent place in the development of. In this paper, we propose a mathematic approach based on integer linear programming, which is an optimization problem of maximizing or minimizing a linear objective function, to deal with dl ontologies. The following are libraries of humanselected ontologies. Storing and querying ontologies in logic databases. Prolog has its roots in firstorder logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, prolog is intended primarily as a declarative programming language. Broad generalpurpose ontologies are emerging as well. However, with maturity often comes a plethora of subdisciplines, which, a. A list of books is given on w3cs wiki site, comprising at this moment over 40 books in different languages, published by major publishers. Newest ontologies questions computer science stack. Combining firstorder logic and logic programming using fol. Chapter 12 is an overview of research prototypes for integrating relational databases and logic programming.

Foundations of logic, machine calculation, and ai for scholarly anatomists. The development of ontologies has led to the emergence of services providing lists or directories of ontologies called ontology libraries. An integrated environment for reasoning over ontologies via logic. There are, of course, lots of other books on knowledge representation, logic, xml, databases, etc, that are all relevant for the semantic web, but adding these to this list would be counter productive. Firstorder logic propositional logic only deals with facts, statements that may or may not be true of the world, e.

On querying ontologies with contextual logic programming cl. These logics were created from the attempts to formalize semantic networks and frame based systems. This book represents a selection of papers presented at the inductive logic programming ilp workshop held at cumberland lodge, great windsor park. The artificialintelligence literature contains many definitions of an ontology. Read on the mathematics of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies and modelling languages by brian hendersonsellers available from rakuten kobo. An introduction to ontology engineering open textbook.

Ontoclean, on the other hand, is a methodology that addresses the creation of clean ontologies, i. Query answering while taking ontologies into account. The book also contains an extensive bibliography and an index. An application of logic programming vangelis vassiliadis, jan wielemaker, chris mungall abstract. Ontologies are formal definitions of vocabularies that allow us to define difficult or complex structures and new relationships between vocabulary terms and members of classes that we define. Many semantic web reasoners are based on logic programming principles and rule languages for the semantic web based on logic programming are an ongoing discussion.

Owl is built on rdfs which helps us to define ontologies. The description logic foundations of owl mean that it is possible to compute what is entailed by an owl ontology. For the purposes of this guide an ontology is a formal explicit description of concepts in a domain of discourse classes sometimes called concepts, properties of each concept describing various features and attributes of the concept slots sometimes called roles or. We illustrate the application scenarios by means of examples. Ontologies and logic reasoning as tools in humanities. Pdf storing and querying ontologies in logic databases. The web ontology language owl is a family of knowledge representation languages for. It contains news, net postings, call for papers, comments, conference announcements and humour, all related to computational logic. But you can follow any of the programming books and there you will get better logic. The collection marks two decades since the first ilp workshop in 1991. Home ontologies and logic programming for query answering.

While ontology in its broad sense, the theory of what exists, is allencompassing and philosophical in scope, bobfo focuses on analyzing the information domain with an intended application in it. Colore is an open repository of firstorder ontologies in common logic with formal links between ontologies in the repository. Prolog, with its logicbased, declarative semantics offers many advan tages as a host programming language for querying and processing owl2 ontologies. Ontologies provide formal names to real world objects in a specific domain. I logic foundations for ontologies 23 2 first order logic and automated reasoning in a nutshell 25. Nowadays, data management on the world wide web needs to consider very large knowledge databases kdb. Ontologies and logic programming for query answering. An introduction to description logic by franz baader. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology often deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist. Theory and applications of ontology is a twovolume.

Pdf in this paper, we propose ontological logic programming olp, a novel approach that combines logic programming with ontological reasoning. In this paper, we propose a number of basic types and roles of ontologies, and use them as a basis to analyze several legal ontologies in the ai and law literature. We discuss some dimensions in which to distinguish types of ontologies, for example considering their level of structure. Cognitive architecture, means that there is a decision architecture that nativey exploits knowledge representation and inteligent inference based on it, as it is for example the case with bdi belief desire intention agents that use modal logic. Justification based explanation in ontologies distinguished dissertation matthew horridge on. On the semantic web both ontologies and rules are used to express extra constraints and logical relationships among resources. It provides criteria for distinguishing different types of objects concrete and abstract, existent and nonexistent, real and ideal, independent and dependent and their ties relations, dependencies and predication. Similarly, as programmers accustomed to procedural programming have problems when introduced to declarative programming, if new ontology engineers are accustomed to other knowledge representation methods, they may not describe domain semantics well or not use some representation possibilities of ontologies appropriately. Combining firstorder logic and logic programming using. This page contains information on books that are strictly on the semantic web and linked data.