Expressive reasoning with horn rules and fuzzy description logics

  • Authors:
  • Theofilos Mailis;Giorgos Stoilos;Giorgos Stamou

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou, Greece

  • Venue:
  • RR'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This essay describes fuzzy CARIN, a knowledge representation language combining fuzzy description logics with Horn rules. Fuzzy CARIN integrates the management of fuzzy logic into the nonrecursive CARIN system. It provides a sound and complete algorithm for representing and reasoning about fuzzy ALCNR extended with nonrecursive Horn rules. Such an extension is most useful in realistic applications dealing with uncertainty and imprecision, such as multimedia processing and medical applications. Additionally, it provides the ability of answering to union of conjunctive queries, which is a novelty not previously addressed by fuzzy DL systems.