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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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Carsten Lutz , Quentin Manière , Robin Nolte

We study the problem of finite entailment of ontology-mediated queries. Going beyond local queries, we allow transitive closure over roles. We focus on ontologies formulated in the description logics ALCOI and ALCOQ, extended with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Tomasz Gogacz , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Albert Gutowski , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Filip Murlak

We investigate the problem of finite entailment of ontology-mediated queries. We consider the expressive query language, unions of conjunctive regular path queries (UCRPQs), extending the well-known class of union of conjunctive queries,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Vıctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Albert Gutowski , Yazmın Ibáñez-Garcıa , Filip Murlak

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

In active learning, membership queries (MQs) allow a learner to pose questions to a teacher, such as ''Is every apple a fruit?'', to which the teacher responds correctly with yes or no. These MQs can be viewed as subsumption tests with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haoruo Zhao , Wenshuo Tang , Duncan Guthrie , Michele Sevegnani , David Flynn , Paul Harvey

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrock , Ulrike Sattler , Stephan Tobies

Ontology Learning has been the subject of intensive study for the past decade. Researchers in this field have been motivated by the possibility of automatically building a knowledge base on top of text documents so as to support reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Sourish Dasgupta , Ankur Padia , Kushal Shah , Rupali KaPatel , Prasenjit Majumder

Competency Questions (CQs) are a form of ontology functional requirements expressed as natural language questions. Inspecting CQs together with the axioms in an ontology provides critical insights into the intended scope and applicability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Reham Alharbi , Valentina Tamma , Floriana Grasso , Terry Payne

We study the problem of fitting ontologies and constraints to positive and negative examples that take the form of a finite relational structure. As ontology and constraint languages, we consider the description logics $\mathcal{E\mkern-2mu…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Simon Hosemann , Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Sebastian Rudolph

We study privacy-preserving query answering in Description Logics (DLs). Specifically, we consider the approach of controlled query evaluation (CQE) based on the notion of instance indistinguishability. We derive data complexity results for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Gianluca Cima , Domenico Lembo , Riccardo Rosati , Domenico Fabio Savo

This works is motivated by a real-world case study where it is necessary to integrate and relate existing ontologies through meta- modelling. For this, we introduce the Description Logic ALCQM which is obtained from ALCQ by adding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Regina Motz , Edelweis Rohrer , Paula Severi

Ontology embeddings map classes, roles, and individuals in ontologies into $\mathbb{R}^n$, and within $\mathbb{R}^n$ similarity between entities can be computed or new axioms inferred. For ontologies in the Description Logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Olga Mashkova , Fernando Zhapa-Camacho , Robert Hoehndorf

Answering conjunctive queries (CQs) over a set of facts extended with existential rules is a prominent problem in knowledge representation and databases. This problem can be solved using the chase algorithm, which extends the given set of…

In ontology-based data access, multiple data sources are integrated using an ontology and mappings. In practice, this is often achieved by a bootstrapping process, that is, the ontology and mappings are first designed to support only the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Carsten Lutz , Johannes Marti , Leif Sabellek

The extraction of logically-independent fragments out of an ontology ABox can be useful for solving the tractability problem of querying ontologies with large ABoxes. In this paper, we propose a formal definition of an ABox module, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Jia Xu , Patrick Shironoshita , Ubbo Visser , Nigel John , Mansur Kabuka

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo , Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria

We give solutions to two fundamental computational problems in ontology-based data access with the W3C standard ontology language OWL 2 QL: the succinctness problem for first-order rewritings of ontology-mediated queries (OMQs), and the…

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance in analyzing and generating text, yet they struggle with explicit, transparent, and verifiable reasoning over complex texts such as those containing debates. In particular, they lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gianvincenzo Alfano , Sergio Greco , Lucio La Cava , Stefano Francesco Monea , Irina Trubitsyna

Finding a logical formula that separates positive and negative examples given in the form of labeled data items is fundamental in applications such as concept learning, reverse engineering of database queries, generating referring…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Hadrien Pulcini , Frank Wolter

Ontologies are known to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) when translating natural language queries into a formal query language like SQL or SPARQL. There are two ways to leverage ontologies when working with LLMs. One is…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-15 C. Civili , E. Sherkhonov , R. E. K. Stirewalt