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Despite the many advantages that ontology-based data access (OBDA) has brought to a range of application domains, state-of-the-art OBDA systems still do not support popular graph database management systems such as Neo4j. Algorithms for…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Bianca Löhnert , Nikolaus Augsten , Cem Okulmus , Magdalena Ortiz

Ontological queries are evaluated against an ontology rather than directly on a database. The evaluation and optimization of such queries is an intriguing new problem for database research. In this paper we discuss two important aspects of…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Georg Gottlob , Giorgio Orsi , Andreas Pieris

Ontology-based data access is an approach to organizing access to a database augmented with a logical theory. In this approach query answering proceeds through a reformulation of a given query into a new one which can be answered without…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Vladimir V. Podolskii

While classical planning languages make the closed-domain and closed-world assumption, there have been various approaches to extend those with DL reasoning, which is then interpreted under the usual open-world semantics. Current approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Tobias John , Patrick Koopmann

We introduce ontology-mediated planning, in which planning problems are combined with an ontology. Our formalism differs from existing ones in that we focus on a strong separation of the formalisms for describing planning problems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tobias John , Patrick Koopmann

Ontology-based query answering (OBQA) augments classical query answering in databases by domain knowledge encoded in an ontology. Systems for OBQA use the ontological knowledge to infer new information that is not explicitly given in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Stefan Borgwardt , Veronika Thost

Ontological queries are evaluated against a knowledge base consisting of an extensional database and an ontology (i.e., a set of logical assertions and constraints which derive new intensional knowledge from the extensional database),…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Georg Gottlob , Giorgio Orsi , Andreas Pieris

We investigate ontology-based data access to temporal data. We consider temporal ontologies given in linear temporal logic LTL interpreted over discrete time (Z,<). Queries are given in LTL or MFO(<), monadic first-order logic with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Alessandro Artale , Roman Kontchakov , Alisa Kovtunova , Vladislav Ryzhikov , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

In ontology-based data access (OBDA), ontologies have been successfully employed for querying possibly unstructured and incomplete data. In this paper, we advocate using ontologies not only to formulate queries and compute their answers,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Medina Andreşel , Yazmin Ibáñez-García , Magdalena Ortiz , Mantas Šimkus

Competency Questions (CQs) are a cornerstone of requirement elicitation in ontology engineering. CQs represent requirements as a set of natural language questions that an ontology should satisfy; they are traditionally modelled by ontology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Reham Alharbi , Valentina Tamma , Terry R. Payne , Jacopo de Berardinis

We study the complexity of answer counting for ontology-mediated queries and for querying under constraints, considering conjunctive queries and unions thereof (UCQs) as the query language and guarded TGDs as the ontology and constraint…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Cristina Feier , Carsten Lutz , Marcin Przybyłko

In ontology-mediated query answering, access to incomplete data sources is mediated by a conceptual layer constituted by an ontology, which can be formulated in a description logic (DL) or using existential rules. In the literature, there…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Christian Alrabbaa , Stefan Borgwardt , Patrick Koopmann , Alisa Kovtunova

We analyze the data complexity of ontology-mediated querying where the ontologies are formulated in a description logic (DL) of the ALC family and queries are conjunctive queries, positive existential queries, or acyclic conjunctive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Carsten Lutz , Frank Wolter

SPARQL query rewriting is a fundamental mechanism for uniformly querying heterogeneous ontologies in the Linked Data Web. However, the complexity of ontology alignments, particularly rich correspondences (c : c), makes this process…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Anicet Lepetit Ondo , Laurence Capus , Mamadou Bousso

We study the enumeration of answers to ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) where the ontology is a set of guarded TGDs or formulated in the description logic ELI and the query is a conjunctive query (CQ). In addition to the traditional notion…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Carsten Lutz , Marcin Przybyłko

In ontology-mediated query answering, access to incomplete data sources is mediated by a conceptual layer constituted by an ontology. To correctly compute answers to queries, it is necessary to perform complex reasoning over the constraints…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Christian Alrabbaa , Stefan Borgwardt , Patrick Koopmann , Alisa Kovtunova

In many scenarios, complete and incomplete information coexist. For this reason, the knowledge representation and database communities have long shown interest in simultaneously supporting the closed- and the open-world views when reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Shqiponja Ahmetaj , Magdalena Ortiz , Mantas Simkus

The ontology engineering process is complex, time-consuming, and error-prone, even for experienced ontology engineers. In this work, we investigate the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide effective OWL ontology drafts…

Many efforts have been dedicated to identifying restrictions on ontologies expressed as tuple-generating dependencies (tgds), a.k.a. existential rules, that lead to the decidability for the problem of answering ontology-mediated queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Pablo Barcelo , Gerald Berger , Andreas Pieris

Our concern is the problem of determining the data complexity of answering an ontology-mediated query (OMQ) formulated in linear temporal logic LTL over (Z,<) and deciding whether it is rewritable to an FO(<)-query, possibly with some extra…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Agi Kurucz , Vladislav Ryzhikov , Yury Savateev , Michael Zakharyaschev