Explanation in DL-Lite

Alexander Borgida, Diego Calvanese, and Mariano Rodriguez-Muro

Proc. of the 21st Int. Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2008). Volume 353 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, https://ceur-ws.org/. 2008.

The paper addresses the problem of explaining some reasoning tasks associated with the DL-Lite Description Logic. Because of the simplicity of the language, standard concept level reasoning is quite easy, and the only contribution is an alternate, more accessible syntax, plus a focus on brevity of proofs. Of greater interest is the explanation of reasoning in finite models, which is motivated by the use of DL-Lite for database access. The fame of DL-Lite rests on its ability to answer efficiently conjunctive queries over KBs, and the paper makes three contributions in this regard: (1) a method for explaining why a value b was returned by a query; (2) a method for finding minimal explanations for why a conjunctive query is unsatisfiable; (3) the beginnings of a theory for explaining why a value b was not returned by a query.


@inproceedings{DL-2008,
   title = "Explanation in DL-Lite",
   year = "2008",
   author = "Alexander Borgida and Diego Calvanese and Mariano
Rodriguez-Muro",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 21st Int. Workshop on Description Logics
(DL 2008)",
   volume = "353",
   publisher = "CEUR-WS.org",
   series = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings, https://ceur-ws.org/",
}
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