Reasoning within Fuzzy Description Logics.
Journal of Artificial intelligence Research, 14: 136--166, 2001.
Abstract:
Description Logics (DLs) are suitable, well-known, logics for managing
structured knowledge. They allow reasoning about individuals and well
defined concepts, i.e. set of individuals with common properties. The
experience in using DLs in applications has shown that in many cases we
would like to extend their capabilities. In particular, their use in the
context of Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) leads to the convincement
that such DLs should allow the treatment of the inherent
imprecision in multimedia object content representation and retrieval. In
this paper we will present a fuzzy extension of ALC, combining Zadeh's
fuzzy logic with a classical DL. In particular, concepts becomes fuzzy and,
thus, reasoning about imprecise concepts is supported. We will define its
syntax, its semantics, describe its properties and present a constraint
propagation calculus for reasoning in it.