TBox Reasoning in the Probabilistic Description Logic SHIQp

Abstract

Abstract. One shortcoming of classic Descriptions Logics, DLs, is their inability to encode probabilistic knowledge and reason over it. This is, however, a strong demand of some modern applications, e.g. in biology and healthcare. Therefore, probabilistic extensions of DLs are attracting attention nowadays. We introduce the probabilistic DL SHIQP which extends a known probabilistic DL. We in-vestigate two reasoning problems for TBoxes: deciding consistency and com-puting tight probability bounds. It turns out that both problems are not harder than reasoning in the classic counterpart SHIQ. We gain insight into complex-ity sources.

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