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doi:10.22028/D291-24776
Title: | Terminological cycles in KL-ONE-based knowledge representation languages |
Author(s): | Baader, Franz |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 1990 |
OPUS Source: | Kaiserslautern ; Saarbrücken : DFKI, 1990 |
SWD key words: | Künstliche Intelligenz Terminologische Sprache |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | Cyclic definitions are often prohibited in terminological knowledge representation languages, because, from a theoretical point of view, their semantics is not clear and, from a practical point of view, existing inference algorithms may go astray in the presence of cycles. In this paper we consider terminological cycles in a very small KL-ONE-based language. For this language, the effect of the three types of semantics introduced by Nebel (1987, 1989, 1989a) can be completely described with the help of finite automata. These descriptions provide a rather intuitive understanding of terminologies with cyclic definitions and give insight into the essential features of the respective semantics. In addition, one obtains algorithms and complexity results for subsumption determination. The results of this paper may help to decide what kind of semantics is most appropriate for cyclic definitions, not only for this small language, but also for extended languages. As it stands, the greatest fixed-point semantics comes off best. The characterization of this semantics is easy and has an obvious intuitive interpretation. Furthermore, important constructs--such as value-restriction with respect to the transitive or reflexive-transitive closure of a role--can easily be expressed. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-35492 hdl:20.500.11880/24832 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-24776 |
Series name: | Research report / Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz [ISSN 0946-008x] |
Series volume: | 90-01 |
Date of registration: | 4-Mar-2011 |
Faculty: | SE - Sonstige Einrichtungen |
Department: | SE - DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz |
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