Implementing Matching in ALE--First Results

Matching problems in Description Logics are theoretically well understood, with a variety of algorithms available for different DLs. Nevertheless, still no implementation of a general matching algorithm exists. The present paper presents an implementation of an existing matching algorithm for the DL ALE and shows first results on benchmarks w.r.t. randomly generated matching problems. The observed computation times show that the implementation performs well even on relatively large matching problems.