Conjunctive Queries for a Tractable Fragment of OWL1.1
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Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler
Conjunctive Queries for a Tractable Fragment of OWL1.1
Abstract. Despite the success of the Web Ontology Language OWL, the development of expressive means for querying OWL knowledge bases is still an open issue. In this paper, we investigate how a very natural and desirable form of queries – namely conjunctive ones – can be used in conjunction with OWL such that one of the major design criteria of the latter – namely decidability – can be retained. More precisely, we show that querying the tractable fragment EL++ of OWL 1.1 is decidable. We also provide a complexity analysis and show that querying unrestricted EL++ is undecidable.
Published at ISWC2007 (Conference paper)
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Citation details
- Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler. Conjunctive Queries for a Tractable Fragment of OWL1.1. In Karl Aberer, Key-Sun Choi, Natasha Noy, Dean Allemang, Kyung-Il Lee, Lyndon Nixon, Jennifer Golbeck, Peter Mika, Diana Maynard, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Guus Schreiber, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, eds.: Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-07), pp. 310–323. Springer 2007.
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I have presented this work at ISWC2007:
Some further slides on the topic are found on the page about Conjunctive Queries for EL with Role Composition.
