The use of ontologies in various application domains, such as Data Integration, the Semantic Web, or ontology-based data management, where ontologies provide the access to large am...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...
We study the data complexity of instance checking and conjunctive query answering in the EL family of description logics, with a particular emphasis on the boundary of tractability...
The novel context of accessing and querying large data repositories through ontologies that are formalized in terms of expressive DLs requires on the one hand to consider query an...
An important reasoning task, in addition to the standard DL reasoning services, is conjunctive query answering. In this paper, we present algorithms for conjunctive query answerin...