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The conceptual formalism supported by an ontology is not sufficient for handling vague information that is commonly found in many application domains. We describe how to introduce fuzziness in an ontology. To this aim we define a framework consisting of a fuzzy ontology based on Fuzzy Description Logic and Fuzzy–Owl.
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Calegari, S., Ciucci, D. (2007). Fuzzy Ontology, Fuzzy Description Logics and Fuzzy-OWL. In: Masulli, F., Mitra, S., Pasi, G. (eds) Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory. WILF 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4578. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73400-0_15
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