• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.366-373
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• 2008

The web ontology language(OWL) has been used by ontology designers to construct ontology. In order to derive hidden information(concept subsumption, concept satisfiability and realization) of OWL ontology, a number of OWL reasoners have been introduced. But most reasoners simply report these information without process for any arbitrary entailment and unsatisfiable concept derived from a OWL ontologies. In this paper, we propose Minimum Expression Axiom Set(MEXS) detection and storing for debugging unsatisfiable concepts in ontology. In order to detect MEXS, we need to find axiom to cause inconsistency in ontology. Therefore, our work focused on two key aspects: given a inconsistency ontology, identifying the roots of axioms to occur unsatisfiable and derived axioms from among them; and extracting MEXS. Our results can be applicable to all application, which is at the basis of the description logic.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.764-773
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• 2008

The web ontology language(OWL) has become a W3C recommendation to publish and share ontologies on the semantic web. In order to check the satisfiablity of concepts in OWL ontology, OWL reasoners have been introduced. But most reasoners simply report check results without providing a justification for any arbitrary entailment of unsatisfiable concept in OWL ontologies. In this paper, we propose dependency label based causing inconsistency axiom (CIA) detection for debugging unsatisfiable concepts in ontology. CIA is a set of axioms to occur unsatisfiable concepts. In order to detect CIA, we need to find axiom to cause inconsistency in ontology. If precise CIA is gave to ontology building tools, these ontology tools display CIA to debug unsatisfiable concepts as suitable presentation format. Our work focuses on two key aspects. First, when a inconsistency ontology is given, it detect axioms to occur unsatisfiable and identify the root of them. Second, when particular unsatisfiable concepts in an ontology are detected, it extracts them and presents to ontology designers. Therefore we introduce a tableau-based decision procedure and propose an improved method which is dependency label based causing inconsistency axiom detection. Our results are applicable to the very expressive logic SHOIN that is the basis of the Web Ontology Language.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.93-94
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• 2007