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A Resolution−Based Decision Procedure for SHOIQ.

Yevgeny Kazakov and Boris Motik

Abstract

We present a resolution-based decision procedure for the description logic SHOIQ—-the logic underlying the Semantic Web ontology language OWLDL. Our procedure is goal-oriented, and it naturally extends a similar procedure for SHIQ, which has proven itself in practice. Applying existing techniques for saturation-based decision procedures to SHOIQ is not straightforward due to nominals, number restrictions, and inverse roles—-a combination known to cause termination problems. We overcome this difficulty by using the basic superposition calculus, extended with custom simplification rules.

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Book Title

IJCAR

Pages

662−677

Publisher

Springer

Series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

4130

Year

2006

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DOI (10.1007/11814771_53)

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