Signature-Based Abduction with Fresh Individuals and Complex Concepts for Description Logics

Signature-Based Abduction with Fresh Individuals and Complex Concepts for Description Logics

Patrick Koopmann

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 1929-1935. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/266

Given a knowledge base and an observation as a set of facts, ABox abduction aims at computing a hypothesis that, when added to the knowledge base, is sufficient to entail the observation. In signature-based ABox abduction, the hypothesis is further required to use only names from a given set. This form of abduction has applications such as diagnosis, KB repair, or explaning missing entailments. It is possible that hypotheses for a given observation only exist if we admit the use of fresh individuals and/or complex concepts built from the given signature, something most approaches for ABox abduction so far do not allow or only allow with restrictions. In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of this form of abduction---allowing either fresh individuals, complex concepts, or both---for various description logics, and give size bounds on the hypotheses if they exist.
Keywords:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Description Logics and Ontologies
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Diagnosis and Abductive Reasoning
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Computational Complexity of Reasoning