DL Role Constructors

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Sebastian Rudolph, Markus Krötzsch, Pascal Hitzler

Cheap Boolean Role Constructors for Description Logics

Abstract. We investigate the possibility of incorporating Boolean role constructors on simple roles into some of today’s most popular description logics, focussing on cases where those extensions do not increase complexity of reasoning. We show that the expressive DLs SHOIQ and SROIQ, serving as the logical underpinning of OWL and the forthcoming OWL 2, can accommodate arbitrary Boolean expressions. The prominent OWL-fragment SHIQ can be safely extended by safe role expressions, and the tractable fragments EL++ and DLP retain tractability if extended by conjunction on roles, where in the case of DLP the restriction on role simplicity can even be discarded.

Published at JELIA2008 (Conference paper)

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Sebastian Rudolph, Markus Krötzsch, Pascal Hitzler. Cheap Boolean Role Constructors for Description Logics. In Steffen Hölldobler, Carsten Lutz, Heinrich Wansing, eds.: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA-08), pp. 362–347. Springer 2008.