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Conjunctive Query Answering for the Description Logic SHIQ

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Conjunctive Query Answering for the Description Logic SHIQ
Conjunctive queries play an important role as an expressive query language for Description Logics (DLs). Although modern DLs usually provide for transitive roles, conjunctive query answering over DL knowledge bases is only poorly understood if transitive roles are admitted in the query. In this paper, we consider unions of conjunctive queries over knowledge bases formulated in the prominent DL SHIQ and allow transitive roles in both the query and the knowledge base. We show decidability of query answering in this setting and establish two tight complexity bounds: regarding combined complexity, we prove that there is a deterministic algorithm for query answering that needs time single exponential in the size of the KB and double exponential in the size of the query, which is optimal. Regarding data complexity, we prove containment in co-NP.
Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Carsten Lutz, Ulrike Sa
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where IJCAI
Authors Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Carsten Lutz, Ulrike Sattler
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