Conjunctive Query Inseparability of OWL 2 QL TBoxes

نویسندگان

  • Boris Konev
  • Roman Kontchakov
  • Michel Ludwig
  • Thomas Schneider
  • Frank Wolter
  • Michael Zakharyaschev
چکیده

The OWL2 profile OWL2QL, based on the DL-Lite family of description logics, is emerging as a major language for developing new ontologies and approximating the existing ones. Its main application is ontology-based data access, where ontologies are used to provide background knowledge for answering queries over data. We investigate the corresponding notion of query inseparability (or equivalence) for OWL2QL ontologies and show that deciding query inseparability is PSPACE-hard and in EXPTIME. We give polynomial time (incomplete) algorithms and demonstrate by experiments that they can be used for practical module extraction.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011