dlvhex: A Prover for Semantic-Web Reasoning under the Answer-Set Semantics

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Eiter;Giovambattista Ianni;Roman Schindlauer;Hans Tompits

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universitat Wien, Austria;Technische Universitat Wien, Austria;Technische Universitat Wien, Austria;Technische Universitat Wien, Austria

  • Venue:
  • WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present the system dlvhex, a solver for HEX-programs, which are nonmonotonic logic programs admitting both higher-order atoms as well as external atoms. Higher-order features are widely acknowledged as being useful for various tasks, including meta-reasoning. Furthermore, the possibility to exchange knowledge with external sources in a fully declarative paradigm such as answer-set programming (ASP) becomes increasingly important, in particular in view of applications in the Semantic-Web area. Through external atoms, HEX-programs can deal with external knowledge and reasoners of various nature, such as RDF datasets or description-logics knowledge bases.