Recently, representation of context dependent knowledge in the Semantic Web has been recognized as a relevant issue and a number of logic based solutions have been proposed in this regard: among them, in our previous works we presented the Contextualized Knowledge Repository (CKR) framework. A CKR knowledge base has a two layered structure, modelled by a global context and a set of local contexts: the global context not only contains the metaknowledge defining the properties of local contexts, but also holds the global (context independent) object knowledge that is shared by all of the local contexts. In many practical cases, however, it is desirable to leave the possibility to “override” the global object knowledge at the local level, by recognizing the axioms that can allow exceptional instances in the local contexts. This clearly requires to add a notion of non monotonicity across the global and the local parts of a CKR. In this paper we present an extension to the semantics of CKR to introduce such notion of defeasible axioms. By extending a previously proposed datalog translation, we obtain a representation for CKR as a datalog program with negation under answer set semantics. This representation can be exploited as the basis for implementation of query answering for the proposed extension of CKR.

Defeasibility in contextual reasoning with CKR

Bozzato, Loris;Serafini, Luciano
2013-01-01

Abstract

Recently, representation of context dependent knowledge in the Semantic Web has been recognized as a relevant issue and a number of logic based solutions have been proposed in this regard: among them, in our previous works we presented the Contextualized Knowledge Repository (CKR) framework. A CKR knowledge base has a two layered structure, modelled by a global context and a set of local contexts: the global context not only contains the metaknowledge defining the properties of local contexts, but also holds the global (context independent) object knowledge that is shared by all of the local contexts. In many practical cases, however, it is desirable to leave the possibility to “override” the global object knowledge at the local level, by recognizing the axioms that can allow exceptional instances in the local contexts. This clearly requires to add a notion of non monotonicity across the global and the local parts of a CKR. In this paper we present an extension to the semantics of CKR to introduce such notion of defeasible axioms. By extending a previously proposed datalog translation, we obtain a representation for CKR as a datalog program with negation under answer set semantics. This representation can be exploited as the basis for implementation of query answering for the proposed extension of CKR.
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