TY - GEN
T1 - Description logics and fuzzy probability
AU - Schröder, Lutz
AU - Pattinson, Dirk
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Uncertainty and vagueness are pervasive phenomena in real-life knowledge. They are supported in extended description logics that adapt classical description logics to deal with numerical probabilities or fuzzy truth degrees. While the two concepts are distinguished for good reasons, they combine in the notion of probably, which is ultimately a fuzzy qualification of probabilities. Here, we develop existing propositional logics of fuzzy probability into a full-blown description logic, and we show decidability of several variants of this logic under Łukasiewicz semantics. We obtain these results in a novel generic framework of fuzzy coalgebraic logic; this enables us to extend our results to logics that combine crisp ingredients including standard crisp roles and crisp numerical probabilities with fuzzy roles and fuzzy probabilities.
AB - Uncertainty and vagueness are pervasive phenomena in real-life knowledge. They are supported in extended description logics that adapt classical description logics to deal with numerical probabilities or fuzzy truth degrees. While the two concepts are distinguished for good reasons, they combine in the notion of probably, which is ultimately a fuzzy qualification of probabilities. Here, we develop existing propositional logics of fuzzy probability into a full-blown description logic, and we show decidability of several variants of this logic under Łukasiewicz semantics. We obtain these results in a novel generic framework of fuzzy coalgebraic logic; this enables us to extend our results to logics that combine crisp ingredients including standard crisp roles and crisp numerical probabilities with fuzzy roles and fuzzy probabilities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864285581&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-184
DO - 10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-184
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781577355120
T3 - IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP - 1075
EP - 1080
BT - IJCAI 2011 - 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
T2 - 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2011
Y2 - 16 July 2011 through 22 July 2011
ER -