Horn-Rewritability vs PTime Query Evaluation in Ontology-Mediated Querying

Horn-Rewritability vs PTime Query Evaluation in Ontology-Mediated Querying

Andre Hernich, Carsten Lutz, Fabio Papacchini, Frank Wolter

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 1861-1867. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/257

In ontology-mediated querying with an expressive description logic L, two desirable properties of a TBox T are (1) being able to replace T with a TBox formulated in the Horn-fragment of L without affecting the answers to conjunctive queries, and (2) that every conjunctive query can be evaluated in PTime w.r.t. T. We investigate in which cases (1) and (2) are equivalent, finding that the answer depends on whether the unique name assumption (UNA) is made, on the description logic under consideration, and on the nesting depth of quantifiers in the TBox. We also clarify the relationship between query evaluation with and without UNA and consider natural variations of property (1).
Keywords:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Description Logics and Ontologies
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Databases