Reasoning about explanations for negative query answers in \textit{DL-Lite}

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DOI10.1613/JAIR.3870zbMATH Open1361.68222arXiv1402.0575OpenAlexW3098952310MaRDI QIDQ2865013FDOQ2865013


Authors: Diego Calvanese, Magdalena Ortiz, Mantas Šimkus, Giorgio Stefanoni Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 November 2013

Published in: The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In order to meet usability requirements, most logic-based applications provide explanation facilities for reasoning services. This holds also for Description Logics, where research has focused on the explanation of both TBox reasoning and, more recently, query answering. Besides explaining the presence of a tuple in a query answer, it is important to explain also why a given tuple is missing. We address the latter problem for instance and conjunctive query answering over DL-Lite ontologies by adopting abductive reasoning; that is, we look for additions to the ABox that force a given tuple to be in the result. As reasoning tasks we consider existence and recognition of an explanation, and relevance and necessity of a given assertion for an explanation. We characterize the computational complexity of these problems for arbitrary, subset minimal, and cardinality minimal explanations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0575




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