Fragments of Description Logics

Fragments of Description Logics are simplified versions of a formal framework used to represent and organize knowledge about concepts and their relationships. They focus on specific subsets of the full language, which makes reasoning more efficient while still capturing essential information. Think of them as streamlined tools that help computers understand and categorize data, like classifying animals or products, without the complexity of the entire system. These fragments are useful in applications such as ontologies and semantic web, balancing expressiveness with computational performance.