The need to deal with vague information in Semantic Web languages is rising in importance
and, thus, calls for a standard way to represent such information. We may address this issue …

Classical, two-valued, ontologies have been successfully applied to represent the
knowledge in many domains. However, it has been pointed out that they are not suitable in …

This book is the first to combine coverage of fuzzy logic and Semantic Web languages. It
provides in-depth insight into fuzzy Semantic Web languages for non-fuzzy set theory and …

Fuzzy description logics (DLs) are a family of logics which allow the representation of (and
the reasoning within) structured knowledge affected by vagueness. Although a relatively …

Fuzzy Description Logics are a formalism for the representation of structured knowledge
affected by imprecision or vagueness. They have become popular as a language for fuzzy …

Today, there is a growing interest in the development of knowledge representations able to
deal with uncertainty, which is a very common requirement in real world applications …

Abstract The Building Information Model (BIM) has become a key tool to achieve
communication during the whole building life-cycle. Open standards, such as the Industry …

Ontologies have succeeded as a knowledge representation formalism in many domains of
application. Nevertheless, they are not suitable to represent vague or imprecise information …

Ontology, as a standard (World Wide Web Consortium recommendation) for representing
knowledge in the Semantic Web, has become a fundamental and critical component for …

Molodtsov initiated the concept of soft set theory, which can be used as a generic
mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of …