Computer Science – Logic in Computer Science
Scientific paper
2001-06-13
Computer Science
Logic in Computer Science
Ph.D. Thesis
Scientific paper
Description Logics (DLs) are used in knowledge-based systems to represent and reason about terminological knowledge of the application domain in a semantically well-defined manner. In this thesis, we establish a number of novel complexity results and give practical algorithms for expressive DLs that provide different forms of counting quantifiers. We show that, in many cases, adding local counting in the form of qualifying number restrictions to DLs does not increase the complexity of the inference problems, even if binary coding of numbers in the input is assumed. On the other hand, we show that adding different forms of global counting restrictions to a logic may increase the complexity of the inference problems dramatically. We provide exact complexity results and a practical, tableau based algorithm for the DL SHIQ, which forms the basis of the highly optimized DL system iFaCT. Finally, we describe a tableau algorithm for the clique guarded fragment (CGF), which we hope will serve as the basis for an efficient implementation of a CGF reasoner.
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