Semantic Web logic programming tools

Abstract

The last two decades of research in Logic Programming, both at the theoretical and practical levels, have addressed several topics highly relevant for the Semantic Web effort, providing very concrete answers to some open questions. This paper describes succinctly the contributions from the Logic Programming group of Centro de Inteligência Artificial (CENTRIA) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, as a prelude to a description of our recent efforts to develop integrated standard tools for disseminating this research throughout the interested Web communities. The paper does not intended to be a survey of logic programming techniques applicable to the Semantic Web, and so the interested reader should try to obtain the missing information in the logic programming journals and conferences. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.