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    On the succinctness of query rewriting over shallow ontologies

    Kikot, Stanislav and Kontchakov, Roman and Podolskii, V. and Zakharyaschev, Michael (2014) On the succinctness of query rewriting over shallow ontologies. In: Henzinger, T. and Miller, D. (eds.) CSL-LICS '14 Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). New York, U.S.: ACM, 57:1-57:10. ISBN 9781450328869.

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    Abstract

    We investigate the succinctness problem for conjunctive query rewritings over OWL2QL ontologies of depth 1 and 2 by means of hypergraph programs computing Boolean functions. Both positive and negative results are obtained. We show that, over ontologies of depth 1, conjunctive queries have polynomial-size nonrecursive datalog rewritings; tree-shaped queries have polynomial positive existential rewritings; however, in the worst case, positive existential rewritings can be superpolynomial. Over ontologies of depth 2, positive existential and nonrecursive datalog rewritings of conjunctive queries can suffer an exponential blowup, while first-order rewritings can be superpolynomial unless NP �is included in P/poly. We also analyse rewritings of tree-shaped queries over arbitrary ontologies and note that query entailment for such queries is fixed-parameter tractable.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: JOINT MEETING OF the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL) AND the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) July 14–18, 2014, Vienna, Austria
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Roman Kontchakov
    Date Deposited: 11 Aug 2014 09:59
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:35
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/10350

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