The Summary ABox: Cutting Ontologies Down to Size
A paper written by Kavitha Srinivas, Li Ma, Achille Fokoue, Aaron Kershenbaum and Edith Schonberg. It was presented at the ISWC2006.
This paper is one of the three research papers that has been nominated for the Best Paper award at ISWC2006.
[edit] Abstract
Reasoning on OWL ontologies is known to be intractable in the worst-case, which is a serious problem because in practice, most OWL ontologies have large Aboxes, i.e., numerous assertions about individuals and their relations. We propose a technique that uses a summary of the ontology (summary Abox ) to reduce reasoning to a small subset of the original Abox, and prove that our techniques are sound and complete.We demonstrate the scalability of this technique for consistency detection in 4 ontologies, the largest of which has 6.5 million role assertions.
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