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In this paper we introduce a tableau calculus for a nonmonotonic extension of the low complexity Description Logic \(\mbox{\em DL-Lite}_{\mathit{core}}\) of the DL-Lite family. The extension, called \(\mbox{\em DL-Lite}_{\mathit{c}}{\bf T}_{min}\), can be used to reason about typicality and defeasible properties. The calculus performs a two-phase computation to check whether a query is minimally entailed from the initial knowledge base. It is sound, complete and terminating. Furthermore, it is a decision procedure for \(\mbox{\em DL-Lite}_{\mathit{c}}{\bf T}_{min}\) knowledge bases, whose complexity matches the known results for the logic, namely that entailment is in \({\it \Pi}^p_2\).
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Giordano, L., Gliozzi, V., Olivetti, N., Pozzato, G.L. (2011). A Tableau Calculus for a Nonmonotonic Extension of the Description Logic \(\mbox{\em DL-Lite}_{\mathit{core}}\) . In: Pirrone, R., Sorbello, F. (eds) AI*IA 2011: Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond. AI*IA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23954-0_17
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