Realizing Default Logic over Description Logic Knowledge Bases

  • Authors:
  • Minh Dao-Tran;Thomas Eiter;Thomas Krennwallner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria A-1040;Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria A-1040;Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria A-1040

  • Venue:
  • ECSQARU '09 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider a realization of Reiter-style default logic on top of description logic knowledge bases (DL-KBs). To this end, we present elegant transformations from default theories to conjunctive query (cq-)programs that combine rules and ontologies, based on different methods to find extensions of default theories. The transformations, which are implemented in a front-end to a DL-reasoner, exploit additional constraints to prune the search space via relations between default conclusions and justifications. The front-end is a flexible tool for customizing the realization, allowing to develop alternative or refined default semantics. To our knowledge, no comparable implementation is available.