@inbook{bb1c2388f631430eb84562c1d185bfa0,
title = "An Approach to Description Logic with Support for Propositional Attitudes and Belief Fusion",
abstract = "In the (Semantic) Web, the existence or producibility of certain, consensually agreed or authoritative knowledge cannot be assumed, and criteria to judge the trustability and reputation of knowledge sources may not be given. These issues give rise to formalizations of web information which factor in heterogeneous and possibly inconsistent assertions and intentions, and make such heterogeneity explicit and manageable for reasoning mechanisms. Such approaches call provide valuable meta-knowledge in contemporary application fields, like open or distributed ontologies, social software, ranking and recommender systems, and domains with a high amount of controversies, such as politics and culture. As an approach to this, we introduce a lean formalism for the Semantic Web which allows for the explicit representation of controversial individual and group opinions and goals by means of so-called social contexts, and optionally for the probabilistic belief merging of uncertain or conflicting statements. Doing so, our approach generalizes concepts such as provenance annotation and voting in the context of ontologies and other kinds of Semantic Web knowledge.",
keywords = "Context Logic, OWL, Knowledge Integration, Provenance Annotation, Semantic Web, Voting",
author = "Matthias Nickles and R Cobos",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-540-89764-4",
volume = "5327 NAI",
series = "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "124--142",
editor = "daCosta, {P C G} and C dAmato and N Fanizzi and Laskey, {K B} and Laskey, {K J} and T Lukasiewicz and Matthias Nickles and M Pool",
booktitle = "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web 1",
note = "6th International Semantic Web Conference/2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007/ASWC 2007), ISWC 2007/ASWC 2007 ; Conference date: 11-11-2007 Through 15-11-2007",
}