Resolution-Based Approximate Reasoning for OWL DL [chapter]

Pascal Hitzler, Denny Vrandečić
2005 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
We propose a new technique for approximate ABox reasoning with OWL DL ontologies. Essentially, we obtain substantially improved reasoning performance by disregarding non-Horn features of OWL DL. Our approach comes as a side-product of recent research results concerning a new transformation of OWL DL ontologies into negation-free disjunctive datalog [1, 2, 3, 4], and rests on the idea of performing standard resolution over disjunctive rules by treating them as if they were non-disjunctive ones.
more » ... e analyse our reasoning approach by means of non-monotonic reasoning techniques, and present an implementation, called Screech.
doi:10.1007/11574620_29 fatcat:hanrvk64ojdudmzz3w632rqkcq