Distributed reasoning with fuzzy description logics

By the development of Semantic Web, increasing demands for vague and distributed information representation have triggered a mass of theoretical and applied researches of fuzzy and distributed ontologies, whose main logical infrastructures are fuzzy and distributed description logics. However, current solutions are proposed respectively on one of these two aspects. By integrating E-connection into fuzzy description logics, this paper proposes a novel logical approach to couple both fuzzy and distributed features within description logics. The main contribution of these paper is to propose a discrete tableau algorithm to achieve reasoning within this new logical system.