Defeasible inheritance-based description logics

  • Authors:
  • Giovanni Casini;Umberto Straccia

  • Affiliations:
  • Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy;ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Two
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Defeasible inheritance networks are a nonmonotonic framework that deals with hierarchical knowledge. On the other hand, rational closure is acknowledged as a landmark of the preferential approach. We will combine these two approaches and define a new non-monotonic closure operation for propositional knowledge bases that combines the advantages of both. Then we redefine such a procedure for Description Logics, a family of logics well-suited to model structured information. In both cases we will provide a simple reasoning method that is build on top of the classical entailment relation.