The International Workshop on Description Logics is the main annual event of the Description Logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, from both academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information, and compare experiences. The workshop explicitly welcomes submissions from researchers that are new to the area and provides quality feedback via peer-reviewing, while at the same time being of an inclusive nature with a very high acceptance rate. There are only informal (electronic) proceedings and inclusion of a paper there is not supposed to preclude its publication at conferences. Further information can be found on the DL webpages at http://dl.kr.org/. This volume contains the papers presented at the 31st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2018) held on 27-29 October 2018 in Tempe, Arizona, USA. Every submission to the workshop received three reviews (with 3 exceptions), provided by 55 PC members and 9 additional reviewers. Overall, the committee decided to accept 33 full papers and 11 extended abstracts. The contents of these papers were presented in 22 talks of 20 minutes each, 14 talks of 15 minutes, 8 posters, and 4 supplementary system demos. The programme additionally included three invited talks by Lidia Tendera (University of Opole, Poland), Denny Vrandečić (Google Inc.), and Renata Wassermann (University of São Paulo, Brazil). The talk by Lidia Tendera was funded by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). The talk by Renata Wassermann was part of a joint session with the 17th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2018), which also contained three DL talks and one NMR talk. We take this opportunity to thank all the PC members for their invaluable effort, providing helpful and informative reviews for all the submissions on time. The organisation and reviewing process was simplified by the tools provided by EasyChair and CEUR. The Local Organization Committee of KR 2018 deserve the praise for organising and running the event. We thank Michael Zakharyaschev for his contribution to the organisation to the workshop in his role as the general chair. Finally, this workshop would not be possible without the submissions and participation of all the people that make DL such an interesting community. We are also very grateful to the Foundation for Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR Inc.), the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), and the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). For a full list of sponsors, see the workshop homepage http://dl.kr.org/dl2018 . Their sponsorship made possible the participation of several students and young researchers.
General Chair
Programme Committee Members Additional Reviewers
Warren Del-Pinto Pietro Galliani Ján Kľuka Weizhuo Li Jose Mora Leif Sabellek Samuel J. van Gool Özgür Lütfü Özcep The University of Manchester, UK Nuance Communications, US Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy The University of Edinburgh, UK Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Novosibirsk State University, Russia Southeast University, China Sapienza University of Rome, Italy University of Grenoble Alpes, France TU Dresden, Germany Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy The University of Manchester, UK The University of Manchester, UK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany TU Wien, Austria babylon health, London, UK ISTI-CNR, Italy University of Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo, Canada University of Liverpool, UK Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Local Organization (KR 2018)
Tran Cao Son Arizona State University, USA New Mexico State University, USA