Exploring Non-Regular Extensions of Propositional Dynamic Logic with Description-Logics Features.

Bartosz BednarczykBartosz Bednarczyk

Bartosz Bednarczyk
Exploring Non-Regular Extensions of Propositional Dynamic Logic with Description-Logics Features.
Logical Methods in Computer Science, to appear

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KurzfassungAbstract
We investigate the impact of non-regular path expressions on the decidability of satisfiability checking and querying in description logics extending ALC. Our primary objects of interest are ALCreg and ALCvpl, the extensions of with path expressions employing, respectively, regular and visibly-pushdown languages. The first one, ALCreg, is a notational variant of the well-known Propositional Dynamic Logic of Fischer and Ladner. The second one, ALCvpl, was introduced and investigated by Loding and Serre in 2007. The logic ALCvpl generalises many known decidable non-regular extensions of ALCreg. We provide a series of undecidability results. First, we show that decidability of the concept satisfiability problem for ALCvpl is lost upon adding the seemingly innocent Self operator. Second, we establish undecidability for the concept satisfiability problem for ALCvpl extended with nominals. Interestingly, our undecidability proof relies only on one single non-regular (visibly-pushdown) language, namely on Der Name des Attributs „r#s# “ enthält das ungültige Zeichen „#“, das nicht hierfür verwendet werden kann. for fixed role names r and s. Finally, in contrast to the classical database setting, we establish undecidability of query entailment for queries involving non-regular atoms from r#s#, already in the case of ALC-TBoxes.
Projekt:Project: DeciGUT
Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Computational LogicComputational Logic

@article{B2024,
  author  = {Bartosz Bednarczyk},
  title   = {Exploring Non-Regular Extensions of Propositional Dynamic Logic
             with Description-Logics Features.},
  journal = {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  year    = {2024},
  month   = {May}
}