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We study the enumeration complexity of Unions of Conjunctive Queries(UCQs). We aim to identify the UCQs that are tractable in the sense that the answer tuples can be enumerated with a linear preprocessing phase and a constant delay between…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Nofar Carmeli , Markus Kröll

We study the problem of enumerating answers of Conjunctive Queries ranked according to a given ranking function. Our main contribution is a novel algorithm with small preprocessing time, logarithmic delay, and non-trivial space usage during…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shaleen Deep , Paraschos Koutris

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

Ontology-Mediated Query Answering (OMQA) is a well-established framework to answer queries over an RDFS or OWL Knowledge Base (KB). OMQA was originally designed for unions of conjunctive queries (UCQs), and based on certain answers. More…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Julien Corman , Guohui Xiao

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

We study the problem of finite ontology mediated query answering (FOMQA), the variant of OMQA where the represented world is assumed to be finite, and thus only finite models of the ontology are considered. We adopt the most typical setting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Tomasz Gogacz , Yazmin Ibáñez-García , Filip Murlak

We consider the problem of finding plausible knowledge that is missing from a given ontology, as a generalisation of the well-studied taxonomy expansion task. One line of work treats this task as a Natural Language Inference (NLI) problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Na Li , Thomas Bailleux , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

Competency Questions (CQs) are pivotal in knowledge engineering, guiding the design, validation, and testing of ontologies. A number of diverse formulation approaches have been proposed in the literature, ranging from completely manual to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Reham Alharbi , Valentina Tamma , Terry R. Payne , Jacopo de Berardinis

We focus on ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) based on (frontier-)guarded existential rules and (unions of) conjunctive queries, and we investigate the problem of FO-rewritability, i.e., whether an OMQ can be rewritten as a first-order…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Pablo Barcelo , Gerald Berger , Carsten Lutz , Andreas Pieris

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

We consider ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) based on expressive description logics of the ALC family and (unions) of conjunctive queries, studying the rewritability into OMQs based on instance queries (IQs). Our results include exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Cristina Feier , Carsten Lutz , Frank Wolter

An ontology language for ontology mediated query answering (OMQA-language) is universal for a family of OMQA-languages if it is the most expressive one among this family. In this paper, we focus on three families of tractable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Heng Zhang , Yan Zhang , Jia-Huai You , Zhiyong Feng , Guifei Jiang

Current methods for embedding-based query answering over incomplete Knowledge Graphs (KGs) only focus on inductive reasoning, i.e., predicting answers by learning patterns from the data, and lack the complementary ability to do deductive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Medina Andresel , Trung-Kien Tran , Csaba Domokos , Pasquale Minervini , Daria Stepanova

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

In reverse engineering of database queries, we aim to construct a query from a given set of answers and non-answers; it can then be used to explore the data further or as an explanation of the answers and non-answers. We investigate this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Marie Fortin , Boris Konev , Vladislav Ryzhikov , Yury Savateev , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

Due to the importance of linear algebra and matrix operations in data analytics, there is significant interest in using relational query optimization and processing techniques for evaluating (sparse) linear algebra programs. In particular,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Thomas Muñoz , Cristian Riveros , Stijn Vansummeren

The literature on ontology-mediated query answering (OMQA) has been shaped by two key results: first-order rewritability for DL-Lite, and PTime-hardness of data complexity for essentially every description logic beyond it. This has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Janos Arpasi , Bartosz Jan Bednarczyk , Magdalena Ortiz

Our aim is to investigate ontology-based data access over temporal data with validity time and ontologies capable of temporal conceptual modelling. To this end, we design a temporal description logic, TQL, that extends the standard ontology…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Alessandro Artale , Roman Kontchakov , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

Querying large datasets with incomplete and vague data is still a challenge. Ontology-based query answering extends standard database query answering by background knowledge from an ontology to augment incomplete data. We focus on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Rafael Peñaloza , Veronika Thost , Anni-Yasmin Turhan

Aiming at ontology-based data access to temporal data, we design two-dimensional temporal ontology and query languages by combining logics from the (extended) DL-Lite family with linear temporal logic LTL over discrete time (Z,<). Our main…

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