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Defeasible reasoning in Description Logics: an overview on DL^N

Artificial Intelligence 2020-09-18 v2

Abstract

DL^N is a recent approach that extends description logics with defeasible reasoning capabilities. In this paper we provide an overview on DL^N, illustrating the underlying knowledge engineering requirements as well as the characteristic features that preserve DL^N from some recurrent semantic and computational drawbacks. We also compare DL^N with some alternative nonmonotonic semantics, enlightening the relationships between the KLM postulates and DL^N.

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@article{arxiv.2009.04978,
  title  = {Defeasible reasoning in Description Logics: an overview on DL^N},
  author = {Piero A. Bonatti and Iliana M. Petrova and Luigi Sauro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04978},
  year   = {2020}
}
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