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title: "Abductive Matchmaking using Description Logics"
authors:
  - "Tommaso Di Noia"
  - "Eugenio Di Sciascio"
  - "Francesco M. Donini"
  - "Marina Mongiello"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/50"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0050.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "337-341"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Abductive Matchmaking using Description Logics

Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Marina Mongiello

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 337-341.

## Abstract

Motivated by the matchmaking problem in electronic marketplaces, we study abduction in Description Logics. We devise suitable definitions of the problem, and show how they can model commonsense reasoning usually employed in analyz-, ing classified announcements having a standardized terminology. We then describe a system partially implementing these ideas, and present a simple experiment, which shows the correspondence between the system behavior with human users judgement.