Combining Event Calculus and Description Logic Reasoning via Logic Programming

Peter Baumgartner*

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    Abstract

    The paper introduces a knowledge representation language that combines the event calculus with description logic in a logic programming framework. The purpose is to provide the user with an expressive language for modelling and analysing systems that evolve over time. The approach is exemplified with the logic programming language as implemented in the Fusemate system. The paper extends Fusemate’s rule language with a weakly DL-safe interface to the description logic ALCIF and adapts the event calculus to this extended language. This way, time-stamped ABoxes can be manipulated as fluents in the event calculus. All that is done in the frame of Fusemate’s concept of stratification by time. The paper provides conditions for soundness and completeness where appropriate. Using an elaborated example it demonstrates the interplay of the event calculus, description logic and logic programming rules for computing possible models as plausible explanations of the current state of the modelled system.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationFrontiers of Combining Systems - 13th International Symposium, FroCoS 2021, Proceedings
    EditorsBoris Konev, Giles Reger
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages98-117
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Print)9783030862046
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2021, co-located with the 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2021 - Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Duration: 8 Sept 202110 Sept 2021

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume12941 LNAI
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2021, co-located with the 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2021
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityBirmingham
    Period8/09/2110/09/21

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