Unification in the Description Logic ELHR+ without the Top Concept modulo Cycle-Restricted Ontologies

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Abstract

Unification has been introduced in Description Logic (DL) as a means to detect redundancies in ontologies. In particular, it was shown that testing unifiability in the DL EL is an NP-complete problem, and this result has been extended in several directions. Surprisingly, it turned out that the complexity increases to PSpace if one disallows the use of the top concept in concept descriptions. Motivated by features of the medical ontology SNOMED CT, we extend this result to a setting where the top concept is disallowed, but there is a background ontology consisting of restricted forms of concept and role inclusion axioms. We are able to show that the presence of such axioms does not increase the complexity of unification without top, i.e., testing for unifiability remains a PSpace-complete problem.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelAutomated Reasoning - 12th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2024, Nancy, France, July 1-6, 2024, Proceedings, Part II
Redakteure/-innenChristoph Benzmüller, Marijn J. H. Heule, Renate A. Schmidt
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer
Seiten279-297
Seitenumfang19
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2 Juli 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheLecture Notes in Computer Science
Band14740
ISSN0302-9743

Konferenz

Titel12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
KurztitelIJCAR 2024
Veranstaltungsnummer12
Dauer1 - 6 Juli 2024
Webseite
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
OrtUniversité de Lorraine
StadtNancy
LandFrankreich

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-4049-221X/work/163766175

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Complexity, Description Logics, Unification