Decidability of $\mathcal{SHI}$ with Transitive Closure of Roles

  • Authors:
  • Chan Duc

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes - LIG,

  • Venue:
  • ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper investigates a Description Logic, namely $\mathcal{SHI}_+$, which extends $\mathcal{SHI}$ by adding transitive closure of roles. The resulting logic $\mathcal{SHI}_+$ allows transitive closure of roles to occur not only in concept inclusion axioms but also in role inclusion axioms. We show that $\mathcal{SHI}_+$ is decidable by devising a terminating, sound and complete algorithm for deciding satisfiability of concepts in $\mathcal{SHI}_+$ with respect to a set of concept and role inclusion axioms.