Standard OIL

Standard OIL is an extension of Core OIL, and can be seen as the succesor of OIL 1.0 (a.k.a. Preliminary OIL). It is more practically useable: strings, integers, sets, individuals are all added to the language. Standard OIL is still designed to allow efficient, sound and complete reasoning.

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Instance OIL

Instance OIL extends Standard OIL with an A-box to specify instances of classes and roles.

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A Denotational Semantics for Standard-OIL and Instance-OIL

In this document we will give a formal specification and semantics for both Standard OIL and Instance OIL, as well as for the standard inference problems (class consistency and inferred subclass relations) performed with respect to an OIL ontology. We will only consider the definitions part of the ontology and we will ignore fields such as documentation that have no semantic significance.

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