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# URSW '05
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web

### Proceedings of the ISWC Workshop on
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
Galway, Ireland, November 7, 2005.

Edited by

### Paulo C. G. da Costa *
Kathryn B. Laskey *
Kenneth J. Laskey #
Michael Pool +

* George Mason University Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
# MITRE Corporation., 7515 Colshire Dr., McLean, VA, 22102, USA
+ Information Extraction and Transport, Inc., 1911 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA, 22209, USA

## Table of Contents

### Technical Papers

1. Is It Worth a Hoot? Qualms about OWL for Uncertainty Reasoning
   Mike Pool, Francis Fung, Stephen Cannon, Jeffrey Aikin
2. A Fuzzy Semantics for Semantic Web Languages
   Mauro Mazzieri, Aldo Franco Dragoni
3. PR-OWL: A Bayesian Ontology Language for the Semantic Web
   Paulo Costa, Kathryn Laskey, Kenneth Laskey
4. Discovery and Uncertainty in Semantic Web Services
   Francisco Martín-Recuerda, Dave Robertson
5. Ontology Learning and Reasoning - Dealing with Uncertainty and Inconsistency
   Peter Haase, Johanna Völker
6. Controlling Ontology Extension by Uncertain Concepts through Cognitive Entropy
   Joaquín Borrego-Díaz, Antonia Chávez-González
7. The Fuzzy Description Logic f-SHIN
   Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos Stamou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Jeff Pan, Ian Horrocks
8. A Generic Framework for Description Logics with Uncertainty
   Volker Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, Nematollaah Shiri
9. Stratified Probabilistic Description Logic Programs
   Thomas Lukasiewicz

### Position Papers

1. Modeling Degrees of Conceptual Overlap in Semantic Web Ontologies
   Markus Holi, Eero Hyvönen
2. Modeling the Non-Expected Choice: A Weighted Utility Logit
   Pia Koskenoja
3. Ontology Based Analysis of Experimental Data
   Andrea Splendiani
4. Paraconsistent Reasoning for the Semantic Web
   S. Schaffert, F. Bry, P. Besnard, H. Decker, S. Decker, C. Enguix, A. Herzig
5. Representing Probabilistic Relations in RDF
   Yoshio Fukushige
6. Statistical Reasoning - A Foundation for Semantic Web Reasoning
   Shashi Kant, Evangelos Mamas

submitted by Kathryn B. Laskey, February 7, 2006