Teaching material.

• [M1] Lecture Notes for Knowledge Representation and Ontologies. Diego Calvanese, Luciano Serafini. 2011.
• [M2] The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, 2007. Edited by F. Baader, D. Calvanese, D. McGuinness, D. Nardi, P.F. Patel-Schneider.
• [M3] Ontologies and databases: The DL-Lite approach. Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Antonella Poggi, Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, and Riccardo Rosati. In Semantic Technologies for Informations Systems - 5th Int. Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2009), volume 5689 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 255-356. Springer, 2009.

1. Modeling information through ontologies [M1: Part 1; M3] (D. Calvanese)
   1. Introduction to ontologies
   2. Ontology languages
   3. UML class diagrams as FOL ontologies
2. Using logic for knowledge representation [M1: Part 2] (L. Serafini)
   1. Main components of a logic
   2. Reasoning methods in logics
   3. Exercises on analyzing logics
3. Description Logics [M1: Part 3; M2] (L. Serafini)
   1. Introduction to DLs
   2. Reasoning in simple DLs
   3. More expressive DLs
   4. Fuzzy DLs
   5. Ontology modularization, integration, and contextualization
4. Ontology based for data access [M1: Part 4; M3] (D. Calvanese)
   1. Description Logics for data access
   2. Query answering over databases and ontologies
   3. Linking ontologies to relational data
   4. Reasoning in the DL-Lite family