OWL reasoners

• Pellet is an open source reasoner for OWL 2 DL in Java. It provides standard and cutting-edge reasoning services for OWL ontologies.

• Fact++ is the new generation of the well-known FaCT OWL-DL reasoner. FaCT++ uses the established FaCT algorithms, but with a different internal architecture. Additionally, FaCT++ is implementated using C++ in order to create a more efficient software tool, and to maximise portability. New optimisations have also been introduced, and some new features added.

• RacerPro is an OWL reasoner and inference server for the Semantic Web.

• The HermiT Reasoner for OWL. HermiT is the first publicly-available OWL reasoner based on a novel “hypertableau” calculus which provides much more efficient reasoning than any previously-known algorithm. Ontologies which previously required minutes or hours to classify can often by classified in seconds by HermiT, and HermiT is the first reasoner able to classify a number of ontologies which had previously proven too complex for any available system to handle.