Terminological Logics with Modal Operators

Franz BaaderFranz Baader, A. LauxA. Laux

Franz Baader, A. Laux
Terminological Logics with Modal Operators
In C. Mellish, eds., Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 808-814, 1995. Morgan Kaufmann

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KurzfassungAbstract
Terminological knowledge representation formalisms can be used to represent objective, time-independent facts about an application domain. Notions like belief, intentions, and time which are essential for the representation of multi-agent environments can only be expressed in a very limited way. For such notions, modal logics with possible worlds semantics provides a formally well-founded and well-investigated basis. This paper presents a framework for integrating modal operators into terminological knowledge representation languages. These operators can be used both inside of concept expressions and in front of terminological and assertional axioms. We introduce syntax and semantics of the extended language, and show that satisfiability of finite sets of formulas is decidable, provided that all modal operators are interpreted in the basic logic {sf K}, and that the increasing domain assumption is used.
Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: AutomatentheorieAutomata Theory

@inproceedings{ BaaderLaux-IJCAI-95,
  address = {Montr{\'e}al, Canada},
  author = {F. {Baader} and A. {Laux}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  editor = {C. {Mellish}},
  pages = {808--814},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  title = {Terminological Logics with Modal Operators},
  year = {1995},
}