A better uncle for OWL: nominal schemas for integrating rules and ontologies

  • Authors:
  • Markus Krötzsch;Frederick Maier;Adila Krisnadhi;Pascal Hitzler

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA;Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA;Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL 2 with nominal schemas which can be used like "variable nominal classes" within axioms. This feature allows ontology languages to express arbitrary DL-safe rules (as expressible in SWRL or RIF) in their native syntax. We show that adding nominal schemas to OWL 2 does not increase the worst-case reasoning complexity, and we identify a novel tractable language SROELV3(∩, x) that is versatile enough to capture the lightweight languages OWL EL and OWL RL.