English

Containment in Monadic Disjunctive Datalog, MMSNP, and Expressive Description Logics

Logic in Computer Science 2020-10-23 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We study query containment in three closely related formalisms: monadic disjunctive Datalog (MDDLog), MMSNP (a logical generalization of constraint satisfaction problems), and ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) based on expressive description logics and unions of conjunctive queries. Containment in MMSNP was known to be decidable due to a result by Feder and Vardi, but its exact complexity has remained open. We prove 2NEXPTIME-completeness and extend this result to monadic disjunctive Datalog and to OMQs.

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@article{arxiv.2010.11842,
  title  = {Containment in Monadic Disjunctive Datalog, MMSNP, and Expressive Description Logics},
  author = {Pierre Bourhis and Carsten Lutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11842},
  year   = {2020}
}
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