A tableau calculus for a nonmonotonic extension of the description logic DL-litecore

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

  • Affiliations:
  • Dip. di Informatica, U. Piemonte O., Alessandria, Italy;Dip. Informatica, Univ. di Torino, Italy;LSIS-UMR CNRS 6168, Marseille, France;Dip. Informatica, Univ. di Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AI*IA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Artificial intelligence around man and beyond
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a tableau calculus for a nonmonotonic extension of the low complexity Description Logic DL-Litecore of the DL-Litecore family. The extension, called DL-LitecTmin, can be used to reason about typicality and defeasible properties. 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 DL-LitecTmin knowledge bases, whose complexity matches the known results for the logic, namely that entailment is in Π2p.