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Role Conjunctions in Expressive Description Logics

Birte Glimm and Yevgeny Kazakov

Abstract

We show that adding role conjunctions to the Description Logics (DLs) SHI and SHOIF causes a jump in the computational complexity of the standard reasoning tasks from ExpTime-complete to 2ExpTime-complete and from NExpTime-complete to N2ExpTime-hard respectively. We further show that this increase is due to a subtle interaction between inverse roles, role hierarchies, and role transitivity in the presence of role conjunctions and that for the DL SHQ a jump in the computational complexity cannot be observed.

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LPAR

ISBN

978−3−540−89438−4

Pages

391−405

Publisher

Springer

Series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

5330

Year

2008

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