A tableau calculus for a nonmonotonic extension of EL⊥

  • Authors:
  • Laura Giordano;Valentina Gliozzi;Nicola Olivetti;Gian Luca Pozzato

  • Affiliations:
  • Dip. di Informatica, U. Piemonte O., Alessandria, Italy;Dip. Informatica, Univ. di Torino, Ital;LSIS, UMR, CNRS, Marseille, France;Dip. Informatica, Univ. di Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • TABLEAUX'11 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Automated reasoning with analytic tableaux and related methods
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We introduce a tableau calculus for a nonmonotonic extension of low complexity Description Logic EL⊥ that can be used to reason about typicality and defeasible properties. The calculus deals with Left Local knowledge bases in the logic EL⊥Tmin recently introduced in. The calculus performs a two-phase computation to check whether a query is minimally entailed from the initial knowledge base. It is sound, complete and terminating. Furthermore, it is a decision procedure for Left Local EL⊥Tmin knowledge bases, whose complexity matches the known results for the logic, namely that entailment is in Π2p.