Ian Horrocks

Professor Ian Horrocks

Ian Horrocks
Nationality British
Institutions University of Oxford
Alma mater University of Manchester
Academic advisors Alan Rector
Doctoral students Birte Glimm,
Despoina Magka,
Héctor Pérez-Urbina,
Rob Shearer,
Frantisek Simancik
Other notable students Matthew Horridge
Known for Knowledge representation,
automated reasoning,
Description Logic,
Ontology languages
Notable awards British Computer Society Roger Needham award[1],
Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS

Ian Horrocks (FRS)[2] is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in the UK and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford [3]. His research[4] focuses on knowledge representation, particularly ontology languages [5], description logic, and optimised reasoning algorithms.

His work on tableau reasoning for very expressive description logics has formed the basis of most description logic reasoning systems in use today, including Racer, FaCT++[6], HermiT[7][8][9] and Pellet[10].

Professor Horrocks was jointly responsible for development of the OIL and DAML+OIL ontology languages, and he played a central role in the development of the Web Ontology Language OWL. These languages and associated tools have been used by the Open Biomedical Ontologies[11] Consortium, the National Cancer Institute in America, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization the World Wide Web Consortium, and a range of major corporations and government agencies.

References

  1. ^ http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/2689 Professor Ian Horrocks, Roger Needham award winners
  2. ^ http://royalsociety.org/people/ian-horrocks/ Professor Ian Horrocks FRS at the Royal Society
  3. ^ http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/ian.horrocks/ Ian Horrocks homepage at the University of Oxford
  4. ^ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ian+horrocks Ian Horrocks in Google Scholar
  5. ^ Horrocks, I. (2003). "From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The making of a Web Ontology Language". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 1: 7–26. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2003.07.001. http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.horrocks/Publications/download/2003/HoPH03a.pdf.  edit
  6. ^ Tsarkov, D.; Horrocks, I. (2006). "FaCT++ Description Logic Reasoner: System Description". Automated Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4130. pp. 292–297. doi:10.1007/11814771_26. ISBN 978-3-540-37187-8. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ian.horrocks/Publications/download/2006/TsHo06a.pdf.  edit
  7. ^ "HermiT Reasoner: Home". http://hermit-reasoner.com/. Retrieved 2nd July 2011. 
  8. ^ B. Motik, R. Shearer and I. Horrocks (2009). "Hypertableau Reasoning for Description Logics". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 36: 165-228. doi:10.1613/jair.2811. http://www.hermit-reasoner.com/publications/msh08hypertableau-journal.pdf.  edit
  9. ^ Motik, B.; Cuenca Grau, B.; Sattler, U. (2008). "Structured objects in owl: representation and reasoning". Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '08. pp. 555. doi:10.1145/1367497.1367573. ISBN 9781605580852. http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p555-motikA.pdf.  edit
  10. ^ Sirin, E.; Parsia, B.; Grau, B.; Kalyanpur, A.; Katz, Y. (2007). "Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 5 (2): 51–53. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2007.03.004. http://pellet.owldl.com/papers/sirin05pellet.pdf.  edit
  11. ^ Golbreich, C.; Horridge, M.; Horrocks, I.; Motik, B.; Shearer, R. (2007). "OBO and OWL: Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for the Life Sciences". The Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4825. pp. 169–182. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_13. ISBN 978-3-540-76297-3. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.horrocks/Publications/download/2007/GHHMS07.pdf.  edit

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