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A Practical Acyclicity Notion for Query Answering Over Horn-\(\mathcal {SRIQ}\) Ontologies

  • David Carral
  • Cristina Feier
  • Pascal Hitzler
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Abstract

Conjunctive query answering over expressive Horn Description Logic ontologies is a relevant and challenging problem which, in some cases, can be addressed by application of the chase algorithm. In this paper, we define a novel acyclicity notion which provides a sufficient condition for termination of the restricted chase over Horn- \(\mathcal {SRIQ}\) TBoxes. We show that this notion generalizes most of the existing acyclicity conditions (both theoretically and empirically). Furthermore, this new acyclicity notion gives rise to a very efficient reasoning procedure. We provide evidence for this by providing a materialization based reasoner for acyclic ontologies which outperforms other state-of-the-art systems.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Bernardo Cuenca Grau for extensive discussions on the subject and valuable feedback. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under awards 1017255 III: Small: TROn – Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies and 1440202 EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: GeoLink – Leveraging Semantics and Linked Data for Data Sharing and Discovery in the Geosciences; the ERC grant 647289 and the European Research Council grant CODA 647289.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.DaSe LabWright State UniversityDaytonUSA
  2. 2.Universität BremenBremenGermany

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