A NExpTime-Complete Description Logic Strictly Contained in C2

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Tobies

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CSL '99 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop and 8th Annual Conference of the EACSL on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We examine the complexity and expressivity of the combination of the Description Logic ALCQI with a terminological formalism based on cardinality restrictions on concepts. This combination can naturally be embedded into c2, the two variable fragment of predicate logic with counting quantifiers. We prove that ALCQI has the same complexity as c2 but does not reach its expressive power.