Information Systems Group
― Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Ian Horrocks FRS
Professor of Computer Science and Fellow of Oriel College
Interests
My research interests include knowledge representation, ontologies and ontology languages, modal and description logics, automated reasoning, implementation and optimisation of reasoning systems, and applications in areas such as e-Science and the Semantic Web.
Recent Publications
Despoina Magka, Boris Motik, and Ian Horrocks.
Modelling Structured Domains Using Description Graphs and Logic
Programming.
In Proc. of the 9th European Semantic Web Conf. (ESWC 2012),
volume 7295 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 330-344, 2012.
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Ian Horrocks.
Semantics scalability ?
Journal of Zhejiang University - Science C, 13(4):241-244,
2012.
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Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Markus Krötzsch, Clemens Kupke,
Despoina Magka, Boris Motik, and Zhe Wang.
Acyclicity Conditions and their Application to Query Answering
in Description Logics.
In Proc. of the 13th Int. Conf. on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012), 2012.
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Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, and Su Myeon Kim.
Delta-Reasoner: a Semantic Web Reasoner for an Intelligent
Mobile Platform.
In Proc. of the Twentyfirst International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW 2012). ACM, 2012.
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Markus Krötzsch, Frantisek Simancík, and Ian Horrocks.
A Description Logic Primer.
CoRR, abs/1201.4089, 2012.
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News
OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013)
The KRR group co-organises the 2nd edition of the OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE), collocated with DL 2013 workshop.
Best paper prize at SWAT4LS'12
Doctoral Student Despoina Magka's paper entitled 'Ontology-Based Classification of Molecules: a Logic Programming Approach' has received the best paper prize at the 2012 Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences workshop [more information].
Boris Motik awarded EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
Boris Motik was recently successful in gaining an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. The 5 year project, MaSI3: A Massively Scalable Intelligent Information Infrastructure, focuses on Ontology-based Data Management Systems (ODMSs). These are a new kind of data management system specifically designed to deal with complex data, by using natural language queries often across multiple relevant sources [more information].
KRR member wins 'doctoral award' from University of Manchester
Yavor Nenov's PhD thesis "Computability of Euclidean Spatial Logics" has been awarded the Best Thesis Prize of the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester [more information].
Ian Horrocks (KRR group leader) elected to Academia Europaea
Ian Horrocks has been elected to join Academia Europæa, an eminent organization for European scholars. Academia Europæa was founded in 1988 and has over 2000 members, including around 40 Nobel Laureates [more information].
KRR member wins 'doctoral award' from Spanish university
The Jaume I University of Castellon (Spain) has awarded a "Premio extraordinario de doctorado" (roughly translated as a Extraordinary Doctoral Award) to Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford's Department of Computer Science [more information].
OAEI 2012: Matching Large Biomedical Ontologies
The KRR group organises the Large Biomedical Ontologies track within the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.