Part-Whole Reasoning in an Object-Centered Framework

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Background

   1. Introduction

      Pages 5-9

   2. Description Logics

      Pages 11-20

   3. Composite Objects

      Pages 21-30

   4. Part-of in Description Logics

      Pages 31-37

3. Theory

   1. A Framework for Part-of Reasoning in Description Logics

      Pages 41-53

   2. Extending the Framework

      Pages 55-98

   3. Comparison of the Framework with Other Approaches

      Pages 99-102

4. Application Areas

   1. Domain Modeling in an Agent-Oriented Application

      Pages 107-119

   2. Document Management

      Pages 121-129

   3. Learning Composite Concepts

      Pages 131-141

5. Application

   1. Document Search Using Content, Structure and Properties

      Pages 145-165

6. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

      Pages 169-174

7. Back Matter

   Pages 177-195

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In this book, the author develops an object-centered framework with specialized support of the part-of relation based on description logics. These logics are a family of object-centered knowledge representation languages tailored for describing knowledge about concepts and is-a hierarchies of these concepts. In addition to the representation and reasoning facilities provided by description logics for is-a, representation and reasoning facilities are introduced for part-of. Finally, the feasibility and the usefulness of the approach is demonstrated by applying the framework to various areas including domain modeling, agent-oriented scenarios, document management and retrieval, and composite concept learning.

• Conceptual Structures
• Knowledge Representation
• Machine Learning
• Object Databases
• Object-Centered Frameworks
• Object-Oriented Reasoning
• description logics
• learning
• modeling
• object

• Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

  Patrick Lambrix

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