BaseVISor
BaseVISor
Name of the tool: | BaseVISor |
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Home page: | http://www.vistology.com/basevisor/basevisor.html |
Date of latest release: | |
Programming language(s) that can be used with the tool: | Java |
Relevant semantic web technologies: | RDF, OWL |
Categories: | Reasoner, Programming Environment, Rule Reasoner, OWL Reasoner |
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Public mailing list: | http://basevisor@vistology.com |
Preferred project URI: | |
DOAP reference: | |
Company or institution: | VIStology, Inc. |
(Tool description last modified on 2011-03-15.)
Description
BaseVISor 2.0 is VIStology's versatile forward-chaining inference engine specialized to handle facts in the form of RDF triples with support for OWL 2 RL and XML Schema Datatypes. BaseVISor is a Java application and API and requires the Java 1.5 Run Time Environment.
BaseVISor 2.0 features a highly efficient forward-chaining inference engine, optimized for ontological and rule-based reasoning. Rules and facts are compiled into a Rete network and processed with respect to specified ontologies in order to generate all new inferable facts. BaseVISor 2.0 can be embedded into existing applications and extended to meet application-specific requirements. In comparison with other leading inference engines, BaseVISor 2.0 has been demonstrated to be considerably faster in inference time and query time on standard benchmarking datasets.