Towards tractable local closed world reasoning for the semantic web

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Knorr;José Júlio Alferes;Pascal Hitzler

  • Affiliations:
  • CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal;CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal;AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EPIA'07 Proceedings of the aritficial intelligence 13th Portuguese conference on Progress in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Recently, the logics of minimal knowledge and negation as failure MKNF [12] was used to introduce hybrid MKNF knowledge bases [14], a powerful formalism for combining open and closed world reasoning for the Semantic Web. We present an extension based on a new three-valued framework including an alternating fixpoint, the well-founded MKNF model. This approach, the well-founded MKNF semantics, derives its name from the very close relation to the corresponding semantics known from logic programming. We show that the well-founded MKNF model is the least model among all (three-valued) MKNF models, thus soundly approximating also the two-valued MKNF models from [14]. Furthermore, its computation yields better complexity results (up to polynomial) than the original semantics where models usually have to be guessed.