Inferring with inconsistent OWL DL ontology: a multi-valued logic approach

  • Authors:
  • Yue Ma;Zuoquan Lin;Zhangang Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Science, Peking University, Beijing, China;Department of Information Science, Peking University, Beijing, China;Department of Information Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Current Trends in Database Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Web ontology language OWL DL has two-valued model theory semantics so that ontologies expressed by it become trivial when contradictions occur. Based on classical description logic $\mathcal{SHOIN(D)}$, we propose the four-valued description logic $\mathcal{SHOIN(D)}{\it 4}$ which has the ability to reason with inconsistencies. By transformation technic, we convert the reasoning problems of $\mathcal{SHOIN(D)}{\it 4}$ to the counterparts of $\mathcal{SHOIN(D)}$. So $\mathcal{SHOIN(D)}{\it 4}$ provides us with an approach to deal with contradictions by classical reasoning mechanism.