@ARTICLE{HustadtSchmidtGeorgieva04, AUTHOR = {Hustadt, U. and Schmidt, R. A. and Georgieva, L.}, YEAR = {2004}, TITLE = {A Survey of Decidable First-Order Fragments and Description Logics}, JOURNAL = {Journal of Relational Methods in Computer Science}, VOLUME = {1}, PAGES = {251--276}, NOTE = {Invited overview paper}, ABSTRACT = {The guarded fragment and its extensions and subfragments are often considered as a framework for investigating the properties of description logics. There are also other, some less well-known, decidable fragments of first-order logic which all have in common that they generalise the standard translation of ALC to first-order logic. We provide a short survey of some of these fragments and motivate why they are interesting with respect to description logics, mentioning also connections to other non-classical logics.}, }