Pubblication Details
| Authors: | Laura Giordano |
| Valentina Gliozzi |
| Scientific Area: | Knowledge Representation |
| Title: | Reasoning about exceptions in ontologies: from the lexicographic closure to the skeptical closure |
| Published on: | TR-INF-2020-03-01-UNIPMN |
| Publisher: | DiSIT, Computer Science Institute, UPO |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Tipo Pubblicazione: | Technical Report |
| URL: | http://www.di.unipmn.it...R-INF-2020-03-01-UNIPMN.pdf |
| Abstract: | Reasoning about exceptions in ontologies is nowadays one of the challenges the description logics community is facing. The paper describes a preferential approach for dealing with exceptions in Description Logics, based on the rational closure. The rational closure has the merit of providing a simple and efficient approach for reasoning with exceptions, but it does not allow independent handling of the inheritance of different defeasible properties of concepts. In this work we outline a possible solution to this problem by introducing a weaker variant of the lexicographical closure, that we call skeptical closure, which requires to construct a single base. We develop a bi-preference semantics for defining a characterization of the skeptical closure. |
