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Cost-Based Semantics for Querying Inconsistent Weighted Knowledge Bases

Logic in Computer Science 2024-08-01 v2 Artificial Intelligence Databases

Abstract

In this paper, we explore a quantitative approach to querying inconsistent description logic knowledge bases. We consider weighted knowledge bases in which both axioms and assertions have (possibly infinite) weights, which are used to assign a cost to each interpretation based upon the axioms and assertions it violates. Two notions of certain and possible answer are defined by either considering interpretations whose cost does not exceed a given bound or restricting attention to optimal-cost interpretations. Our main contribution is a comprehensive analysis of the combined and data complexity of bounded cost satisfiability and certain and possible answer recognition, for description logics between ELbot and ALCO.

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@article{arxiv.2407.20754,
  title  = {Cost-Based Semantics for Querying Inconsistent Weighted Knowledge Bases},
  author = {Meghyn Bienvenu and Camille Bourgaux and Robin Jean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20754},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This is an extended version of a paper appearing at the 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2024). 20 pages

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