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Recommended Reading
Hitzler (2010) provides thorough coverage of OWL syntax and semantics
Horrocks (2006) is the landmark paper on SROIQ, which forms the basis for the OWL 2 language specs
More detailed discussion on OWL 2 profiles can be found on the website. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-profiles/. Accessed 30 July 2017
The main website for OWL. http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL. Accessed 30 July 2017
The OWL 2 overview page (with details about differences between OWL 1 and OWL 2). http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090327/. Accessed 30 July 2016
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under award 1017225 “III: Small: TROn – Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies.”
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Sengupta, K., Hitzler, P. (2017). Web Ontology Language (OWL). In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_113-1
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