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We present a KE-tableau-based implementation of a reasoner for a decidable fragment of (stratified) set theory expressing the description logic $\mathcal{DL}\langle \mathsf{4LQS^{R,\!\times}}\rangle(\mathbf{D})$…
We present a KE-tableau-based procedure for the main TBox and ABox reasoning tasks for the description logic $\mathcal{DL}\langle \mathsf{4LQS^{R,\!\times}}\rangle(\mathbf{D})$, in short $\mathcal{DL}_{\mathbf{D}}^{4,\!\times}$. The logic…
We address the problem of Conjunctive Query Answering (CQA) for the description logic $\dlssx$ ($\shdlssx$, for short) which extends the logic $\dlss$ with Boolean operations on concrete roles and with the product of concepts. The result is…
In this paper we use results from Computable Set Theory as a means to represent and reason about description logics and rule languages for the semantic web. Specifically, we introduce the description logic $\mathcal{DL}\langle…
We present an ongoing implementation of a KE-tableau based reasoner for a decidable fragment of stratified elementary set theory expressing the description logic $\mathcal{DL}\langle \mathsf{4LQS^{R,\!\times}}\rangle(\mathbf{D})$ (shortly…
We characterize the expressive power of description logic (DL) TBoxes, both for expressive DLs such as ALC and ALCQIO and lightweight DLs such as DL-Lite and EL. Our characterizations are relative to first-order logic, based on a wide range…
Description Logics are knowledge representation formalisms that provide, for example, the logical underpinning of the W3C OWL standards. Conjunctive queries, the standard query language in databases, have recently gained significant…
Conjunctive queries play an important role as an expressive query language for Description Logics (DLs). Although modern DLs usually provide for transitive roles, conjunctive query answering over DL knowledge bases is only poorly understood…
While there has been a great deal of work on the development of reasoning algorithms for expressive description logics, in most cases only Tbox reasoning is considered. In this paper we present an algorithm for combined Tbox and Abox…
Decision lists (DLs) find a wide range of uses for classification problems in Machine Learning (ML), being implemented in a number of ML frameworks. DLs are often perceived as interpretable. However, building on recent results for decision…
We introduce and investigate the expressive description logic (DL) ALCSCC++, in which the global and local cardinality constraints introduced in previous papers can be mixed. On the one hand, we prove that this does not increase the…
We study the problem of fitting a description logic (DL) ontology to a given set of positive and negative examples that take the form of an ABox and a Boolean query. While previous work has investigated this problem for the expressive DLs…
The inexpressive Description Logic (DL) $\mathcal{FL}_0$, which has conjunction and value restriction as its only concept constructors, had fallen into disrepute when it turned out that reasoning in $\mathcal{FL}_0$ w.r.t. general TBoxes is…
Many ontologies, i.e., Description Logic (DL) knowledge bases, have been developed to provide rich knowledge about various domains. An ontology consists of an ABox, i.e., assertion axioms between two entities or between a concept and an…
Circumscription is one of the main approaches for defining non-monotonic description logics (DLs). While the decidability and complexity of traditional reasoning tasks such as satisfiability of circumscribed DL knowledge bases (KBs) is well…
We present in this paper a reformulation of the usual set-theoretical semantics of the description logic $\mathcal{ALC}$ with general TBoxes by using categorical language. In this setting, $\mathcal{ALC}$ concepts are represented as…
The inconsistency in prioritized knowledge base is because the assertions (ABoxes) come from several sources with different levels of reliability. We introduce the handling of this inconsistency problem to query inconsistent…
Reasoning large language models (RLLMs), such as OpenAI-O3 and DeepSeek-R1, have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities by performing structured and multi-step reasoning. However, recent studies reveal that RLLMs often suffer from…
This thesis studies the model theoretic properties of the Description Logics (DLs) ALC, ALCI, ALCQ, as well as ALCO, ALCQO, ALCQIO and EL. TBoxes of ALC, ALCI and ALCQ are characterised as fragments of FO which are invariant under global…
This paper describes a resolution based Description Logic reasoning system called DLog. DLog transforms Description Logic axioms into a Prolog program and uses the standard Prolog execution for efficiently answering instance retrieval…