Tutorial on the W3C
OWL
Web
Ontology Language
ENC 2004
September 2004, Colima, Mexico
presented by
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell
Labs Research
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
pfps@lucent.com
Acknowledgments
Much of the material in this tutorial comes from the tutorial presented
by Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider given at the
Second International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC-2003.
Contents
Additional Material
Related Talks
Background Information
- A good paper on the practical use of OWL is OWL Pizzas:
Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL, even though it is a paper about
teaching OWL-DL, not a paper meant to teach OWL-DL.
- Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. Scientific
American: The Semantic Web. Scientific American, May 2001.
- Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Frank van Harmelen. Reviewing
the Design of DAML+OIL: An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web.
Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, American
Association for Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002.
- Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Frank van Harmelen. From
SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The Making of a Web Ontology Language. Journal of
Web Semantics, 1:1, December 2003, pages 7–26.
- Mike Dean, Guus Schreiber, Sean Bechhofer, Frank van Harmelen, Jim
Hendler, Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and
Lynn Andrea Stein. OWL Web Ontology
Language Reference. W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004,
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/.
- Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Patrick Hayes, and Ian Horrocks. OWL Web Ontology
Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax. W3C Recommendation 10 February
2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/.
- Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Reducing
OWL Entailment to Description Logic Satisfiability. Second
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003). Sundial Resort,
Florida, USA, October 2003.
- Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider. A
Proposal for an OWL Rules Language. The Thirteenth International World
Wide Web Conference. New York, New York, May 2004, ACM Press.
- Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Three
Theses of Knowledge Representation in the Semantic Web. The Twelfth
International World Wide Web Conference. Budapest, Hungary, May 2003, ACM
Press, pages 39–47.
- Bijan Parsia and Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Meaning
and the Semantic Web. The Thirteenth International World Wide Web
Conference. New York, New York, May 2004, ACM Press.
- Peter F. Patel-Schneider. What
is OWL (and why should I care)? Invited paper for the Ninth
International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning, Whistler, Canada, June 2004.
Short Biography
Peter F. Patel-Schneider is a Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs
Research. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Toronto in 1987. Peter
was a member of the AI Principles Research Department at AT&T Bell
Laboratories from 1988 to 1995, and went to AT&T Labs---Research when
AT&T split up. In August 1997 he rejoined Bell Labs. From 1983 to 1988 he
worked in the AI research group at Fairchild and Schlumberger. Peter has taught
courses at both the University of Toronto and Rutgers University.
Peter's research interests center on the properties and use of Description
Logics. He has designed and implemented large sections of CLASSIC, a Description
Logic-based Knowledge Representation system. He designed and implemented DLP, a
heavily-optimized prover for expressive Description Logics and propositional
modal logics. He has performed extensive empirical evaluation of DLP and other
provers for Description Logics and propositional modal logics. He developed much
of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language, and its predecessor, DAML+OIL. He is
currently building and testing provers for OWL and related languages.
Peter is also interested in rule-based systems, including more-standard
systems derived from OPS as well as newer formalisms such as R++. He designed
many of the techniques used in R++ and the R++ translator, and wrote the first
several prototype implementations of the R++ translator.
Contact information:
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
U. S. A.
WWW:
http://www.bell-labs.com/user/pfps