The fuzzy ontology reasoner fuzzyDL

摘要

Classical, two-valued, ontologies have been successfully applied to represent the knowledge in many domains. However, it has been pointed out that they are not suitable in domains where vague or imprecise pieces of information play an important role. To overcome this limitation, several extensions to classical ontologies based on fuzzy logic have been proposed. We believe, however, that the success of fuzzy ontologies strongly depends on the availability of effective reasoners able to deal with fuzzy ontologies.