Framework for an Automated Comparison of Description Logic Reasoners

A paper written by Ian Horrocks, Dmitry Tsarkov and Tom Gardiner. It was presented at the ISWC2006.

[edit] Abstract

OWL is an ontology language developed by the W3C, and although initially developed for the Semantic Web, OWL has rapidly become a de facto standard for ontology development in general. The design of OWL was heavily influenced by research in description logics, and the specification includes a formal semantics. One of the goals of this formal approach was to provide interoperability: different OWL reasoners should provide the same results when processing the same ontologies. In this paper we present a system that allows users: (a) to test and compare OWL reasoners using an extensible library of real-life ontologies; (b) to check the ``correctness of the reasoners by comparing the computed class hierarchy; (c) to compare the performance of the reasoners when performing this task; and (d) to use SQL queries to analyse and present the results in any way they see fit.

The schedule for this talk can be found in the conference programme and a linked list of all talks is provided in the article on ISWC2006 papers. This article has originally been created from the RDF metadata for ISWC 2006.