---
title: "Verification of Generalized Inconsistency-Aware Knowledge and Action Bases"
authors:
  - "Diego Calvanese"
  - "Marco Montali"
  - "Ario Santoso"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/403"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0403.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2015
pages: "2847-2852"
track: "Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Verification of Generalized Inconsistency-Aware Knowledge and Action Bases

Diego Calvanese, Marco Montali, Ario Santoso

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2847-2852.

## Abstract

Knowledge and Action Bases (KABs) have been put forward as a semantically rich representation of a domain, using a DL KB to account for its static aspects, and actions to evolve its extensional part over time, possibly introducing new objects. Recently, KABs have been extended to manage inconsistency, with ad-hoc verification techniques geared towards specific semantics. This work provides a twofold contribution along this line of research. On the one hand, we enrich KABs with a high-level, compact action language inspired by Golog, obtaining so called Golog-KABs (GKABs). On the other hand, we introduce a parametric execution semantics for GKABs, so as to elegantly accomodate a plethora of inconsistency-aware semantics based on the notion of repair. We then provide several reductions for the verification of sophisticated first-order temporal properties over inconsistency-aware GKABs, and show that it can be addressed using known techniques, developed for standard KABs.