Extending Unification in $\mathcal{EL}$ to Disunification: The Case of Dismatching and Local Disunification

Unification in Description Logics has been introduced as a means to detect redundancies in ontologies. We try to extend the known decidability results for unification in the Description Logic $\mathcal{EL}$ to disunification since negative constraints can be used to avoid unwanted unifiers. While de...

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Main Authors: Franz Baader, Stefan Borgwardt, Barbara Morawska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V. 2017-04-01
Series:Logical Methods in Computer Science
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Online Access:https://lmcs.episciences.org/2063/pdf