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2025

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
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Overview

Frank Wolter is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies in the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence. Wolter's work also encompasses the subfields of Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Signal Processing, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Logic, programming, and type systems
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Advanced Algebra and Logic

Wolter has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. Their most frequent publication platforms include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
  • Research in Transportation Business & Management

Several recent papers illustrate their research trajectory:

  • "First Order-Rewritability and Containment of Conjunctive Queries in Horn Description Logics," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Assessing tourist willingness to pay for excursions on environmentally benign tourist boats: A case study and trend analysis from Berlin, Germany," 2022, Research in Transportation Business & Management
  • "Least General Generalizations in Description Logic: Verification and Existence," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "First-order rewritability of ontology-mediated queries in linear temporal logic," 2021, Artificial Intelligence
  • "Dichotomies in Ontology-Mediated Querying with the Guarded Fragment," 2020, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic

Wolter frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Michael Zakharyaschev
  • Jean Christoph Jung
  • Carsten Lutz
  • Alessandro Artale
  • Vladislav Ryzhikov

In addition to journal and conference publications, Wolter has contributed to book publications through Mohr Siebeck eBooks. Titles include:

  • Die deutsche Wirtschaft im Strukturwandel, 2025
  • Industrial Development Policies for Indonesia, 2025
  • Die Neuordnung der Meere, 2025

Best Publications

  • Monodic fragments of first-order temporal logics: 2000-2001 A.D

    Ian M. Hodkinson;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Semi-qualitative Reasoning about Distances: A Preliminary Report

    Holger Sturm;Nobu-Yuki Suzuki;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Many-Dimensional Modal Logics: Theory and Applications

    Dov M Gabbay;Agi Kurucz;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Handbook of Modal Logic

    Patrick Blackburn;Johan van Benthem;Frank Wolter

  • ε-connections of abstract description systems

    Oliver Kutz;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Connecting abstract description systems

    Oliver Kutz;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Temporal Description Logics: A Survey

    C. Lutz;F. Wolter;M. Zakharyashev

  • Decidable fragments of first-order temporal logics

    Ian M. Hodkinson;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Did I damage my ontology? A case for conservative extensions in description logic

    Silvio Ghilardi;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • Conjunctive query answering in the description logic EL using a relational database system

    Carsten Lutz;David Toman;Frank Wolter

  • Conservative extensions in expressive description logics

    Carsten Lutz;Dirk Walther;Frank Wolter

  • Properties of independently axiomatizable bimodal logics

    Marcus Kracht;Frank Wolter

  • Ontology-Based Data Access: A Study through Disjunctive Datalog, CSP, and MMSNP

    Meghyn Bienvenu;Balder Ten Cate;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • Multi-Dimensional Modal Logic as a Framework for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning

    Brandon Bennett;Anthony G. Cohn;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Spatio-temporal representation and reasoning based on RCC-8

    Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Integrating description logics and action formalisms: first results

    Franz Baader;Carsten Lutz;Maja Miličic;Ulrike Sattler

  • The combined approach to query answering in DL-Lite

    R. Kontchakov;C. Lutz;D. Toman;F. Wolter

  • Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millenium

    F Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Deciding inseparability and conservative extensions in the description logic EL

    Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • The combined approach to ontology-based data access

    R. Kontchakov;C. Lutz;D. Toman;F. Wolter

  • Handbook of Modal Logic, Volume 3 (Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning)

    Patrick Blackburn;Johan F. A. K. van Benthem;Frank Wolter

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Zakharyaschev
Michael Zakharyaschev Birkbeck, University of London
Carsten Lutz
Carsten Lutz Leipzig University
Roman Kontchakov
Roman Kontchakov Birkbeck, University of London
Franz Baader
Franz Baader TU Dresden
Piero A. Bonatti
Piero A. Bonatti University of Naples Federico II
Ulrike Sattler
Ulrike Sattler University of Manchester
Enrico Franconi
Enrico Franconi Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Michael Wooldridge
Michael Wooldridge University of Oxford
Leszek Gasieniec
Leszek Gasieniec University of Liverpool
Michael Fisher
Michael Fisher University of Manchester

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