In the area of Description Logics the least common subsumer (lcs) and the most specific concept (msc) are inferences that generalize a set of concepts or an individual, respectively, into a single concept. If computed w.r.t. a general EL-TBox neither the lcs nor the msc need to exist. So far in this setting no exact conditions for the existence of lcs- or msc-concepts are known. This report provides necessary and suffcient conditions for the existence of these two kinds of concepts. For the lcs of a fixed number of concepts and the msc we show decidability of the existence in PTime and polynomial bounds on the maximal roledepth of the lcs- and msc-concepts. The latter allows to compute the lcs and the msc, respectively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:79539 |
| Date | 20 June 2022 |
| Creators | Zarrieß, Benjamin, Turhan, Anni-Yasmin |
| Publisher | Technische Universität Dresden |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion, doc-type:report, info:eu-repo/semantics/report, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-785040, qucosa:78504 |
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