First-Order Rewritability of Ontology-Mediated Queries in Linear Temporal Logic



Artale, Alessandro, Kontchakov, Roman, Kovtunova, Alisa, Ryzhikov, Vladislav, Wolter, Frank and Zakharyaschev, Michael
(2021) First-Order Rewritability of Ontology-Mediated Queries in Linear Temporal Logic. Artificial Intelligence, 299. p. 103536.

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Abstract

We investigate ontology-based data access to temporal data. We consider temporal ontologies given in linear temporal logic LTL interpreted over discrete time (Z,<). Queries are given in LTL or MFO(<), monadic first-order logic with a built-in linear order. Our concern is first-order rewritability of ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) consisting of a temporal ontology and a query. By taking account of the temporal operators used in the ontology and distinguishing between ontologies given in full LTL and its core, Krom and Horn fragments, we identify a hierarchy of OMQs with atomic queries by proving rewritability into either FO(<), first-order logic with the built-in linear order, or FO(<,E), which extends FO(<) with the standard arithmetic predicates saying that "x is equivalent to 0 modulo n", for any fixed n > 1, or FO(RPR), which extends FO(<) with relational primitive recursion. In terms of circuit complexity, FO(<,E)- and FO(RPR)-rewritability guarantee OMQ answering in uniform AC0 and, respectively, NC1. We obtain similar hierarchies for more expressive types of queries: positive LTL-formulas, monotone MFO(<)- and arbitrary MFO(<)-formulas. Our results are directly applicable if the temporal data to be accessed is one-dimensional; moreover, they lay foundations for investigating ontology-based access using combinations of temporal and description logics over two-dimensional temporal data.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: cs.LO, cs.LO
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2021 07:25
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 22:35
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2021.103536
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3125817