DOOD and DL -- Do We Need an Integration?

Abstract

Description logics and deductive object oriented databases provide a similar view on the structure of an application domain, but rely on quite different reasoning paradigms. Recently their combination is dicussed. However, such a general solution is not at hand yet. Fortunately, a thorough investigation of the application and a thoughtful decision for an advanced system using the appropriate of both reasoning paradigms may also lead to a concise and simple implementation, even in cases which at first sight seem not to fit in the declarative framework. Here we describe our experiences with a linguistics problem. 1 Introduction Over the last years the relationship between advanced database models and description logics (DL) has been increasingly discussed. On the database side deductive object oriented database (DOOD) languages added to traditional database techniques a rich structure as well as rules to describe intensional information. On the other side applications of DL have to han..