Proceedings of the 1999 International Workshop on Description Logics

Abstract

The International Workshop on Description Logics was held in Linkoping Sweden from July to August. It was an a affiliate event with the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Articial Intelligence IJCAI Stockholm July 31 - August 6 and with the Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases KRDB Linkooping July 29-30.The workshop was organized in sessions on theoretical advances in de scription logics (2 sessions), applications of description logics (2 sessions), description logic systems (2 sessions) and extensions of description logics (1 session). Further there was a joint session with the Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases. There were two invited talks Natasha Alechina gave a tutorial on logics for semi-structured data Robert MacGregor and Deborah McGuinness gave a presentation on DARPAs High Performance Knowledge Base project.The workshop was sponsored by the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences TFR Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericssons Stiftelse for framjande av elektroteknisk forskning, Linkopings kommun, Erda AB andthe Laboratory for Intelligent Information Systems, Linkopings universitet.Thanks go also to Lotta Nissen Yelena Turetskaya and a number of studentsfor their contribution to the organization.