Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Peter F. Patel-Schneider contributes to formal languages and standards for representing and reasoning about web knowledge. Patel-Schneider, Patrick Hayes, and Ian Horrocks edited OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax, issued as a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 2004. The document defines formal meaning for OWL ontologies and a mapping to RDF graphs. Patel-Schneider, Boris Motik, and Bijan Parsia edited the second edition of OWL 2’s structural specification and functional-style syntax. W3C issued it as a Recommendation on December 11, 2012, with many contributors.
- Works
- 179
- Citations
- 15,883
- h-index
- 44
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2004
OWL semantics specification
Patel-Schneider, Patrick Hayes, and Ian Horrocks edited OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax, issued as a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 2004. The document defines formal meaning for OWL ontologies and a mapping to RDF graphs.
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2012
OWL 2 structural specification
Patel-Schneider, Boris Motik, and Bijan Parsia edited the second edition of OWL 2’s structural specification and functional-style syntax. W3C issued it as a Recommendation on December 11, 2012, with many listed contributors.
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2012
Research recognition
AAAI elected Peter F. Patel-Schneider as a Fellow in 2012.
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As of October 2026
Shared standards for reasoning
The OWL documents define structures and semantics for classes, properties, individuals, and data values. They support reasoning over ontologies through formal specifications.
Sources and credits
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