This paper is directed towards an infrastructure for handling both uncertainty and vagueness in the Rules, Logic, and Proof layers of the Semantic Web. More concretely, we present probabilistic fuzzy description logic programs, which combine fuzzy description logics, fuzzy logic programs (with stratified nonmonotonic negation), and probabilistic uncertainty in a uniform framework for the Semantic Web. We define important concepts dealing with both probabilistic uncertainty and fuzzy vagueness, such as the expected truth value of a crisp sentence and the probability of a vague sentence. Furthermore, we describe a shopping agent example, which gives evidence of the usefulness of probabilistic fuzzy~description logic programs in realistic web applications. In the extended~report, we also provide algorithms for query processing in probabilistic fuzzy description logic programs, and we delineate a special case where query processing~can be done in polynomial time in the data complexity.

Description logic programs under probabilistic uncertainty and fuzzy vagueness

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2007

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This paper is directed towards an infrastructure for handling both uncertainty and vagueness in the Rules, Logic, and Proof layers of the Semantic Web. More concretely, we present probabilistic fuzzy description logic programs, which combine fuzzy description logics, fuzzy logic programs (with stratified nonmonotonic negation), and probabilistic uncertainty in a uniform framework for the Semantic Web. We define important concepts dealing with both probabilistic uncertainty and fuzzy vagueness, such as the expected truth value of a crisp sentence and the probability of a vague sentence. Furthermore, we describe a shopping agent example, which gives evidence of the usefulness of probabilistic fuzzy~description logic programs in realistic web applications. In the extended~report, we also provide algorithms for query processing in probabilistic fuzzy description logic programs, and we delineate a special case where query processing~can be done in polynomial time in the data complexity.
2007
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" - ISTI
978-3-540-75255-4
Description Logics
Logic Programming
Fuzzy logic
Probabilistic Logic
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