Quantified equilibrium logic and hybrid rules

  • Authors:
  • Jos De Bruijn;David Pearce;Axel Polleres;Agustín Valverde

  • Affiliations:
  • DERI Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain and DERI Galway, National University of Ireland, Galway;Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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

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Abstract

In the ongoing discussion about combining rules and Ontologies on the Semantic Web a recurring issue is how to combine first-order classical logic with nonmonotonic rule languages. Whereas several modular approaches to define a combined semantics for such hybrid knowledge bases focus mainly on decidability issues, we tackle the matter from a more general point of view. In this paper we show how Quantified Equilibrium Logic (QEL) can function as a unified framework which embraces classical logic as well as disjunctive logic programs under the (open) answer set semantics. In the proposed variant of QEL we relax the unique names assumption, which was present in earlier versions of QEL. Moreover, we show that this framework elegantly captures the existing modular approaches for hybrid knowledge bases in a unified way.