On the complexity of Horn description logics

Markus KrötzschMarkus Krötzsch, Sebastian RudolphSebastian Rudolph, Pascal HitzlerPascal Hitzler

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Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler
On the complexity of Horn description logics
In Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Pascal Hitzler, Conor Shankey, Evan Wallace, eds., Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, volume 216 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, November 2006. CEUR

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Horn-SHIQ has been identified as a fragment of the description logic SHIQ for which inferencing is in PTime with respect to the size of the ABox. This enables reasoning with larger ABoxes in situations where the TBox is static, and represents one approach towards tractable description logic reasoning.

In this paper, we show that reasoning in Horn-SHIQ, in spite of its low data-complexity, is ExpTime-hard with respect to the overall size of the knowledge base. While this result is not unexpected, the proof is not a mere modification of existing reductions since it has to account for the restrictions of Hornness. We establish the result for Horn-FLE, showing that Hornness does not simplify TBox reasoning even for very restricted description logics. Moreover, we derive a context-free grammar that defines Horn-SHIQ in a simpler and more intuitive way than existing characterisations.
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Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Computational LogicComputational Logic, Wissensbasierte SystemeKnowledge-Based Systems

@inproceedings{KRH2006,
  author    = {Markus Kr{\"{o}}tzsch and Sebastian Rudolph and Pascal Hitzler},
  title     = {On the complexity of Horn description logics},
  editor    = {Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Pascal Hitzler and Conor Shankey and
               Evan Wallace},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on {OWL:} Experiences and
               Directions},
  series    = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  volume    = {216},
  publisher = {CEUR},
  year      = {2006},
  month     = {November}
}