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Handling Nominals and Inverse Roles using Algebraic Reasoning

Artificial Intelligence 2018-10-03 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a novel SHOI tableau calculus which incorporates algebraic reasoning for deciding ontology consistency. Numerical restrictions imposed by nominals, existential and universal restrictions are encoded into a set of linear inequalities. Column generation and branch-and-price algorithms are used to solve these inequalities. Our preliminary experiments indicate that this calculus performs better on SHOI ontologies than standard tableau methods.

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@article{arxiv.1810.00916,
  title  = {Handling Nominals and Inverse Roles using Algebraic Reasoning},
  author = {Humaira Farid and Volker Haarslev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00916},
  year   = {2018}
}

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23 pages

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