Temporalizing ontology-based data access

  • Authors:
  • Franz Baader;Stefan Borgwardt;Marcel Lippmann

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Dresden, Germany;TU Dresden, Germany;TU Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CADE'13 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Automated Deduction
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Ontology-based data access (OBDA) generalizes query answering in databases towards deduction since (i) the fact base is not assumed to contain complete knowledge (i.e., there is no closed world assumption), and (ii) the interpretation of the predicates occurring in the queries is constrained by axioms of an ontology. OBDA has been investigated in detail for the case where the ontology is expressed by an appropriate Description Logic (DL) and the queries are conjunctive queries. Motivated by situation awareness applications, we investigate an extension of OBDA to the temporal case. As query language we consider an extension of the well-known propositional temporal logic LTL where conjunctive queries can occur in place of propositional variables, and as ontology language we use the prototypical expressive DL $\mathcal{ALC}$. For the resulting instance of temporalized OBDA, we investigate both data complexity and combined complexity of the query entailment problem.