Terminological Reasoning in SHIQ with Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-1-2008

Abstract

We present a new algorithm for reasoning in the description logic SHIQ, which is the most prominent fragment of the Web Ontology Language OWL. The algorithm is based on ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) as a data structure for storing and operating on large model representations. We thus draw on the success and the proven scalability of OBDD-based systems. To the best of our knowledge, we present the very first algorithm for using OBDDs for reasoning with general Tboxes.

Comments

Presented at the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, IL, July 13-17, 2008.

Attached is the unpublished, authors' version of this proceeding.


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