Carsten Lutz

Die sechste Auflage des Werkes berucksichtigt die infolge der Reformen der Juristenausbildung weiter gestiegenen Anforderungen. Die Empfehlungen wurden zum einen aufgrund der im standigen Dialog mit den Lesern gewonnenen praktischen Hinweise uberarbeitet. Zum anderen fliessen die langjahrigen Erfahrungen der Autoren als Prufer im Staatsexamen in die Neuauflage ein. Das vollstandig aktualisierte Lehrbuch enthalt unter anderem noch weiter verfeinerte Hinweise zum effektiven Lernen Musterplane fur Arbeitsgruppen Lernplane Tipps, wie eine Arbeitsgruppe zum Hochleistungsteam geformt werden kann. Die Ruckmeldungen der Leser belegen, dass das Buch eine wertvolle oder sogar eine unverzichtbare Hilfe auf dem Weg zum Pradikatsexamen sein kann. Viel Erfolg

Description logics (DLs) have a long tradition in computer science and knowledge representation, being designed so that domain knowledge can be described and so that computers can reason about this knowledge. DLs have recently gained increased importance since they form the logical basis of widely used ontology languages, in particular the web ontology language OWL. Written by four renowned experts, this is the first textbook on description logics. It is suitable for self-study by graduates and as the basis for a university course. Starting from a basic DL, the book introduces the reader to their syntax, semantics, reasoning problems and model theory and discusses the computational complexity of these reasoning problems and algorithms to solve them. It then explores a variety of reasoning techniques, knowledge-based applications and tools and it describes the relationship between DLs and OWL.

Description logics (DLs) have a long tradition in computer science and knowledge representation, being designed so that domain knowledge can be described and so that computers can reason about this knowledge. DLs have recently gained increased importance since they form the logical basis of widely used ontology languages, in particular the web ontology language OWL. Written by four renowned experts, this is the first textbook on description logics. It is suitable for self-study by graduates and as the basis for a university course. Starting from a basic DL, the book introduces the reader to their syntax, semantics, reasoning problems and model theory and discusses the computational complexity of these reasoning problems and algorithms to solve them. It then explores a variety of reasoning techniques, knowledge-based applications and tools and it describes the relationship between DLs and OWL.