Nonmonotonic ontological and rule-based reasoning with extended conceptual logic programs

  • Authors:
  • Stijn Heymans;Davy Van Nieuwenborgh;Dirk Vermeir

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB, Brussels, Belgium;Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB, Brussels, Belgium;Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB, Brussels, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present extended conceptual logic programs (ECLPs), for which reasoning is decidable and, moreover, can be reduced to finite answer set programming. ECLPs are useful to reason with both ontological and rule-based knowledge, which is illustrated by simulating reasoning in an expressive description logic (DL) equipped with DL-safe rules. Furthermore, ECLPs are more expressive in the sense that they enable nonmonotonic reasoning, a desirable feature in locally closed subareas of the Semantic Web.