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The approach described here allows to use the fuzzy Object Based Representation of imprecise and uncertain knowledge. This representation has a great practical interest due to the possibility to realize reasoning on classification with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Mohamed Nazih Omri

Combining symbolic and neural approaches has gained considerable attention in the AI community, as it is often argued that the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are complementary. One such trend in the literature are weakly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Emile van Krieken , Erman Acar , Frank van Harmelen

The problem of minimizing finite fuzzy interpretations in fuzzy description logics (FDLs) is worth studying. For example, the structure of a fuzzy/weighted social network can be treated as a fuzzy interpretation in FDLs, where actors are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Linh Anh Nguyen

As fragments of first-order logic, Description logics (DLs) do not provide nonmonotonic features such as defeasible inheritance and default rules. Since many applications would benefit from the availability of such features, several…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Piero A. Bonatti , Carsten Lutz , Frank Wolter

Fuzzy description logics serve the representation of vague knowledge, typically letting concepts take truth degrees in the unit interval. Expressiveness, logical properties, and complexity vary strongly with the choice of propositional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Stefan Gebhart , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) has achieved remarkable progress. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain in handling texts with ambiguity, polysemy, or uncertainty. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ping Chen , Xiang Liu , Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Xingpeng Zhang , Huan Hu , Zipeng Wang , Kai Wang , Shuming Shi , Shiguo Lian

The AI community is increasingly putting its attention towards combining symbolic and neural approaches, as it is often argued that the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are complementary. One recent trend in the literature are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Emile van Krieken , Erman Acar , Frank van Harmelen

Evaluating argument strength in quantitative argumentation systems has received increasing attention in the field of abstract argumentation. The concept of acceptability degree is widely adopted in gradual semantics, however, it may not be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zongshun Wang , Yuping Shen

A prominent problem in knowledge representation is how to answer queries taking into account also the implicit consequences of an ontology representing domain knowledge. While this problem has been widely studied within the realm of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Gabriella Pasi , Rafael Peñaloza

Recently, description logic LE-ALC was introduced for reasoning in the semantic environment of enriched formal contexts, and a polynomial-time tableaux algorithm was developed to check the consistency of knowledge bases with acyclic TBoxes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yiwen Ding , Krishna Manoorkar

The paper investigates the properties of a fuzzy logic of typicality. The extension of fuzzy logic with a typicality operator was proposed in recent work to define a fuzzy multipreference semantics for Multilayer Perceptrons, by regarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Laura Giordano

Clinical decision-making requires reasoning over incomplete, imprecise, and linguistically expressed patient narratives. While large language models (LLMs) excel at extracting latent information from natural language, they lack the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiaoyang Fan , Yufan Cai , Zhe Hou , Jin Song Dong

Description logics are knowledge representation languages that have been designed to strike a balance between expressivity and computational tractability. Many different description logics have been developed, and numerous computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Ronald de Haan

Neural-symbolic computing aims at integrating robust neural learning and sound symbolic reasoning into a single framework, so as to leverage the complementary strengths of both of these, seemingly unrelated (maybe even contradictory) AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xuan Wu , Xinhao Zhu , Yizheng Zhao , Xinyu Dai

Decision lists (DLs) find a wide range of uses for classification problems in Machine Learning (ML), being implemented in a number of ML frameworks. DLs are often perceived as interpretable. However, building on recent results for decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Alexey Ignatiev , Joao Marques-Silva

Standard Description Logics (DLs) can encode quantitative aspects of an application domain through either number restrictions, which constrain the number of individuals that are in a certain relationship with an individual, or concrete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Franz Baader , Stefan Borgwardt , Filippo De Bortoli , Patrick Koopmann

Computer vision applications are omnipresent nowadays. The current paper explores the use of fuzzy logic in computer vision, stressing its role in handling uncertainty, noise, and imprecision in image data. Fuzzy logic is able to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Adilet Yerkin , Ayan Igali , Elnara Kadyrgali , Maksat Shagyrov , Malika Ziyada , Muragul Muratbekova , Pakizar Shamoi

Differentiable logics (DL) have recently been proposed as a method of training neural networks to satisfy logical specifications. A DL consists of a syntax in which specifications are stated and an interpretation function that translates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Natalia Ślusarz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Robert Stewart , Kathrin Stark

We present a fuzzy version of description logics with concrete domains. Main features are: (i) concept constructors are based on t-norm, t-conorm, negation and implication; (ii) concrete domains are fuzzy sets; (iii) fuzzy modifiers are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Umberto Straccia

Fuzzy logic programming is a growing declarative paradigm aiming to integrate fuzzy logic into logic programming. One of the most difficult tasks when specifying a fuzzy logic program is determining the right weights for each rule, as well…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Ginés Moreno , Jaime Penabad , Germán Vidal