Tractable and Decidable Fragments of Conceptual Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Franz Baader;Ralf Molitor;Stephan Tobies

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

It is well-known that problems like validity and subsumption of general CGs are undecidable, whereas subsumption is NP-complete for simple conceptual graphs (SGs) and tractable for SGs that are trees. We will employ results on decidable fragments of first-order logic to identify a natural and expressive fragment of CGs for which validity and subsumption is decidable in EXPTIME. In addition, we will extend existing work on the connection between SGs and description logics (DLs) by identifying a DL that corresponds to the class of SGs that are trees. This yields a tractability result previously unknown in the DL community.