Complexity Boundaries for Horn Description Logics

Horn description logics (Horn-DLs) have recently started to attract attention due to the fact that their (worst-case) data complexities are in general lower than their overall (i.e. combined) complexities, which makes them attractive for reasoning with large ABoxes. However, the natural question whether Horn-DLs also provide advantages for TBox reasoning has hardly been addressed so far. In this paper, we therefore provide a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the combined complexities of Horn-DLs. While the combined complexity for many Horn-DLs turns out to be the same as for their non-Horn counterparts, we identify subboolean DLs where Hornness simplifies reasoning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler
• Keywords: AAAI 2007, Data Complexities, Horn Description Logics, Intelligent Agents, Tbox Reasoning