The 12th International Semantic Web Conference
and the 1st Australasian Semantic Web Conference
21-25 October 2013, Sydney, Australia

The Benefits of Incremental Reasoning in OWL EL

Authors: 
Yevgeny Kazakov and Pavel Klinov
Abstract: 
This demo will present the advantages of the new, bookkeeping-free method for incremental reasoning in OWL EL on incremental classification of large ontologies.1 In particular, we will show how the typical experience of a user editing a large ontology can be improved if the reasoner (or ontology IDE) provides the capability of instantaneously re-classifying the ontology in the background mode when a change is made. In addition, we intend to demonstrate how incremental reasoning helps in other tasks such as answering DL queries and computing explanations of entailments. We will use our OWL EL reasoner ELK and its Protege plug-in as the main tools to highlight these benefits.
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