A Practical Acyclicity Notion for Query Answering Over Horn-SRIQ Ontologies

TitleA Practical Acyclicity Notion for Query Answering Over Horn-SRIQ Ontologies
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsCarral, D, Feier, C, Hitzler, P
Conference NameThe Semantic Web - {ISWC} 2016 - 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, October 17-21, 2016, Proceedings, Part {I}
Pagination70–85
Abstract

Conjunctive query answering over expressive Horn Description Logic ontologies is a relevant and challenging problem which, in some cases, can be addressed by application of the chase algorithm. In this paper, we define a novel acyclicity notion which provides a sufficient condition for termination of the restricted chase over Horn-SRIQ TBoxes. We show that this notion generalizes most of the existing acyclicity conditions (both theoretically and empirically). Furthermore, this new acyclicity notion gives rise to a very efficient reasoning procedure. We provide evidence for this by providing a materialization based reasoner for acyclic ontologies which outperforms other state-of-the-art systems.

URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46523-4_5
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-46523-4_5

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