Consequence-Based Reasoning Beyond Horn Ontologies

Abstract

Consequence-based ontology reasoning procedures have so far been known only for Horn ontology languages. A difficulty in extending such procedures is that non-Horn axioms seem to require reasoning by case, which causes non-determinism in tableau-based procedures. In this paper we present a consequence-based procedure for ALCH that overcomes this difficulty by using rules similar to ordered resolution to deal with disjunctive axioms in a deterministic way; it retains all the favourable attributes of existing consequence-based procedures, such as goal-directed “one pass” classification, optimal worst-case complexity, and “pay-asyou- go” behaviour. Our preliminary empirical evaluation suggests that the procedure scales well to non-Horn ontologies.

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Text

Simancik et al. "Consequence-Based Reasoning Beyond Horn Ontologies." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011. doi:10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-187

Markdown

[Simancik et al. "Consequence-Based Reasoning Beyond Horn Ontologies." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2011/simancik2011ijcai-consequence/) doi:10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-187

BibTeX

@inproceedings{simancik2011ijcai-consequence,
  title     = {{Consequence-Based Reasoning Beyond Horn Ontologies}},
  author    = {Simancik, Frantisek and Kazakov, Yevgeny and Horrocks, Ian},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2011},
  pages     = {1093-1098},
  doi       = {10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-187},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2011/simancik2011ijcai-consequence/}
}