A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web

Nick Bassiliades; Efstratios Kontopoulos; Grigoris Antoniou; Ioannis Vlahavas

doi:10.1007/11573036_38

A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web

Nick Bassiliades, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Grigoris Antoniou, Ioannis Vlahavas

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Abstract

Defeasible reasoning is a rule-based approach for efficient reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. Such reasoning is useful for many applications in the Semantic Web, such as policies and business rules, agent brokering and negotiation, ontology and knowledge merging, etc. However, the syntax of defeasible logic may appear too complex for many users. In this paper we present a graphical authoring tool for defeasible logic rules that acts as a shell for the DR-DEVICE defeasible reasoning system over RDF metadata. The tool helps users to develop a rule base using the OO-RuleML syntax of DR-DEVICE rules, by constraining the allowed vocabulary through analysis of the input RDF namespaces, so that the user does not have to type-in class and property names. Rule visualization follows the tree model of RuleML. The DR-DEVICE reasoning system is implemented on top of the CLIPS production rule system and builds upon an earlier deductive rule system over RDF metadata that also supports derived attribute and aggregate attribute rules.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Informatics
Subtitle of host publication	10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings
Editors	Panayiotis Bozanis, Elias N. Houstis
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	404-414
Number of pages	11
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540320913
ISBN (Print)	3540296735, 9783540296737
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11573036_38
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics - Volos, Greece Duration: 11 Nov 2005 → 13 Nov 2005 Conference number: 10

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	3746 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics
Abbreviated title	PCI 2005
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Volos
Period	11/11/05 → 13/11/05

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Bassiliades, N., Kontopoulos, E., Antoniou, G., & Vlahavas, I. (2005). A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web. In P. Bozanis, & E. N. Houstis (Eds.), Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings (1st ed., pp. 404-414). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3746 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11573036_38

Bassiliades, Nick ; Kontopoulos, Efstratios ; Antoniou, Grigoris et al. / A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web. Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. editor / Panayiotis Bozanis ; Elias N. Houstis. 1st. ed. Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2005. pp. 404-414 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Bassiliades, N, Kontopoulos, E, Antoniou, G & Vlahavas, I 2005, A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web. in P Bozanis & EN Houstis (eds), Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. 1st edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 3746 LNCS, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 404-414, 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, Volos, Greece, 11/11/05. https://doi.org/10.1007/11573036_38

A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web. / Bassiliades, Nick; Kontopoulos, Efstratios; Antoniou, Grigoris et al.

Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. ed. / Panayiotis Bozanis; Elias N. Houstis. 1st. ed. Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2005. p. 404-414 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3746 LNCS).

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Bassiliades N, Kontopoulos E, Antoniou G, Vlahavas I. A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web. In Bozanis P, Houstis EN, editors, Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. 1st ed. Berlin: Springer Verlag. 2005. p. 404-414. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/11573036_38

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