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― Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

CB OWL 2 Horn Reasoner

Overview

CB is an experimental ontology reasoner developed as part of the ConDOR project. CB is based on a new kind of "consequence-based" reasoning procedure. Currently CB supports a fragment of OWL 2 which corresponds to the Description Logic Horn-SHIF.

CB is open-source and released under GNU Lesser GPL. All components and source code is available from the CB Google Code Project.



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Using CB

CB as a Protégé plug-in

CB can be used as a plug-in for the Protégé OWL ontology editor: simply copy org.semanticweb.CB.jar from the latest CB release into Protégé's plugin folder.

CB from the Command Line

CB provides a command-line interface for common reasoning tasks, including classification: simply download cb-?os?-?arch?-r.?build?.zip from the latest CB release, where ?os? is one of win, macos or linux, ?arch? is one of x86 or x86-64 and ?build? is the latest build.

Researchers

Yevgeny Kazakov.

Sponsors

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Key Publications