Robustness of Constraint Automata for Description Logics with Concrete Domains

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Autori principali: Demri, Stéphane, Gu, Tianwen
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author Demri, Stéphane
Gu, Tianwen
author_facet Demri, Stéphane
Gu, Tianwen
contents Decidability or complexity issues about the consistency problem for description logics with concrete domains have already been analysed with tableaux-based or type elimination methods. Concrete domains in ontologies are essential to consider concrete objects and predefined relations. In this work, we expose an automata-based approach leading to the optimal upper bound EXPTIME, that is designed by enriching the transitions with symbolic constraints. We show that the nonemptiness problem for such automata belongs to EXPTIME if the concrete domains satisfy a few simple properties. Then, we provide a reduction from the consistency problem for ontologies, yielding EXPTIME-membership. Thanks to the expressivity of constraint automata, the results are extended to additional ingredients such as inverse roles, functional role names and constraint assertions, while maintaining EXPTIME-membership, which illustrates the robustness of the approach
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spellingShingle Robustness of Constraint Automata for Description Logics with Concrete Domains
Demri, Stéphane
Gu, Tianwen
Logic in Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Decidability or complexity issues about the consistency problem for description logics with concrete domains have already been analysed with tableaux-based or type elimination methods. Concrete domains in ontologies are essential to consider concrete objects and predefined relations. In this work, we expose an automata-based approach leading to the optimal upper bound EXPTIME, that is designed by enriching the transitions with symbolic constraints. We show that the nonemptiness problem for such automata belongs to EXPTIME if the concrete domains satisfy a few simple properties. Then, we provide a reduction from the consistency problem for ontologies, yielding EXPTIME-membership. Thanks to the expressivity of constraint automata, the results are extended to additional ingredients such as inverse roles, functional role names and constraint assertions, while maintaining EXPTIME-membership, which illustrates the robustness of the approach
title Robustness of Constraint Automata for Description Logics with Concrete Domains
topic Logic in Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19644