Evren Sirin, Bijan Parsia, Bernardo C. Grau, Aditya Kalyanpur, Yarden Katz
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 5(2), pages 51-53
June 2007
In this paper, we present a brief overview of Pellet: a complete OWL-DL reasoner with acceptable to very good performance, extensive middleware, and a number of unique features. Pellet is the first sound and complete OWL-DL reasoner with extensive support for reasoning with individuals (including nominal support and conjunctive query), user-defined datatypes, and debugging support for ontologies. It implements several extensions to OWL-DL including a combination formalism for OWL-DL ontologies, a non-monotonic operator, and preliminary support for OWL/Rule hybrid reasoning. Pellet is written in Java and is open source.
keywords
Web Ontology Language; Description logics; Tableau Theorem Proving