TY  - RPRT
T1  - Decidable reasoning in terminological knowledge representation systems
T3  - Kaiserslautern ; Saarbrücken : DFKI, 1993
A1  - Buchheit,Martin
A1  - Donini,Francesco M.
A1  - Schaerf,Andrea
Y1  - 2011/06/27
N2  - Terminological Knowledge Representation Systems (TKRS) are tools for designing and using knowledge bases that make use of terminological languages (or concept languages). We analyze from a theoretical point of view a TKRS whose capabilities go beyond the ones of presently available TKRS. The new features studied, all of practical interest, can be summarized in three main points. First, we consider a highly expressive terminological language, called ALCNR, including general complements of concepts, number restrictions and role conjunction. Second, we allow to express inclusion statements between general concepts, and terminological cycles as a particular case. Third, we prove the decidability of a number of desirable TKRS-deduction services (like satisfiability-, subsumption- and instance checking) through a sound, complete and terminating calculus for reasoning in ALCNR-knowledge bases. Our calculus extends the general technique of constraint systems and can be easily turned into a procedure using exponential space. As a byproduct of the proof, we get also the result that inclusion statements in ALCNR can be simulated by terminological cycles, if descriptive semantics is adopted. 
KW  - Künstliche Intelligenz
CY  - Saarbrücken
PB  - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD  - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR  - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2011/3650
ER  -