The Impact of Disjunction on Query Answering Under Guarded-Based Existential Rules

Abstract. We give the complete picture of the complexity of conjunctive query answering under (weakly-)(frontier-)guarded disjunctive existential rules, i.e., existential rules extended with disjunction, and their main subclasses, linear rules and inclusion dependencies.

Datalog Rewritability of Disjunctive Datalog Programs and its Applications to Ontology Reasoning

We study the problem of rewriting a disjunctive datalog program into plain datalog. We show that a disjunctive program is rewritable if and only if it is equivalent to a linear disjunctive program, thus providing a novel characterisation of datalog rewritability. Motivated by this result, we propose weakly linear disjunctive datalog---a novel rule-based KR language that extends both datalog and linear disjunctive datalog and for which reasoning is tractable in data complexity. We then explore applications of weakly linear programs to ontology reasoning and propose a tractable extension of OWL 2 RL with disjunctive axioms. Our empirical results suggest that many non-Horn ontologies can be reduced to weakly linear programs and that query answering over such ontologies using a datalog engine is feasible in practice.Comment: 14 pages. To appear at AAAI-1

First order logic without equality on relativized semantics

Let α≥2 be any ordinal. We consider the class Drsα of relativized diagonal free set algebras of dimension α. With same technique, we prove several important results concerning this class. Among these results, we prove that almost all free algebras of Drsα are atomless, and none of these free algebras contains zero-dimensional elements other than zero and top element. The class Drsα corresponds to first order logic, without equality symbol, with α-many variables and on relativized semantics. Hence, in this variation of first order logic, there is no finitely axiomatizable, complete and consistent theory. © 2018 Elsevier B.V