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Inconsistency-tolerant semantics for description logics

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It is shown that, if the notion of repair studied in databases is used, inconsistency-tolerant query answering is intractable, even for the simplest form of queries.
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We address the problem of dealing with inconsistencies in Description Logic (DL) knowledge bases. Our general goal is both to study DL semantical frameworks which are inconsistency-tolerant, and to devise techniques for answering unions of conjunctive queries posed to DL knowledge bases under such inconsistency-tolerant semantics. Our work is inspired by the approaches to consistent query answering in databases, which are based on the idea of living with inconsistencies in the database, but trying to obtain only consistent information during query answering, by relying on the notion of database repair. We show that, if we use the notion of repair studied in databases, inconsistency-tolerant query answering is intractable, even for the simplest form of queries. Therefore, we study different variants of the repair-based semantics, with the goal of reaching a good compromise between expressive power of the semantics and computational complexity of inconsistency-tolerant query answering.

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The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications

TL;DR: The Description Logic Handbook as mentioned in this paper provides a thorough account of the subject, covering all aspects of research in this field, namely: theory, implementation, and applications, and can also be used for self-study or as a reference for knowledge representation and artificial intelligence courses.
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Tractable Reasoning and Efficient Query Answering in Description Logics: The DL-Lite Family

TL;DR: It is shown that, for the DLs of the DL-Lite family, the usual DL reasoning tasks are polynomial in the size of the TBox, and query answering is LogSpace in thesize of the ABox, which is the first result ofPolynomial-time data complexity for query answering over DL knowledge bases.
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