Une extension possibiliste pour les ontologies DL-Lite inconsistantes partiellement pré-ordonnées
Revue Ouverte d'Intelligence Artificielle, Volume 3 (2022) no. 3-4, pp. 373-391.

La logique DL-Lite possibiliste standard, issue de la logique des descriptions DL-Lite, permet de modéliser l’incertitude sur les données dans les ontologies formelles. Dans cet article, nous proposons une extension de la logique DL-Lite possibiliste pour le cas où les données incertaines sont en outre partiellement pré-ordonnées. Nous supposons que les axiomes de la base terminologique (TBox) sont complètement certains et ne peuvent être remis en cause en présence d’informations contradictoires. Cependant, les faits de la base assertionnelle (ABox) peuvent être incertains et peuvent être ignorés ou affaiblis s’ils sont inconsistants avec les axiomes de la TBox. Nous définissons une méthode efficace pour résoudre les inconsistances dans la base ABox, où l’incertitude est représentée par des poids symboliques, qui sont attachés aux assertions et ordonnés selon un ordre partiel. L’idée consiste à calculer une seule réparation pour la base ABox pondérée et partiellement pré-ordonnée. Pour ce faire, nous considérons toutes les extensions du pré-ordre partiel défini sur les assertions, ce qui génère autant de bases compatibles avec la base ABox initiale. Ensuite, nous calculons la réparation possibiliste associée à chacune des bases compatibles. Enfin, nous obtenons une seule réparation pour la base initiale à partir de l’intersection des réparations possibilistes. Nous établissons les propriétés calculatoires intéressantes de notre méthode grâce à une caractérisation équivalente basée sur la notion d’assertions π-acceptées. En substance, il s’agit des assertions strictement prioritaires à au moins une assertion de chaque conflit de la base ABox initiale. Nous montrons que le calcul de la réparation possibiliste d’une ontologie DL-Lite partiellement pré-ordonnée s’effectue en un temps polynomial par rapport à la taille de la base ABox.

Standard possibilistic DL-Lite, derived from the lightweight Description Logic DL-Lite, allows to represent uncertainty over data pieces in formal ontologies. In this paper, we propose an extension of standard possibilistic DL-Lite to the case where the data is uncertain but also partially preordered. We assume that the axioms of the terminological base (TBox) are fully certain and that they cannot be questioned when the available information is contradictory. However, the ground facts of the assertional base (ABox) may be uncertain and may be ignored or weakened if they are inconsistent with the TBox axioms. We define a tractable method for resolving inconsistency in the ABox, where uncertainty is represented by symbolic weights that are attached to the assertions and ordered according to a partial order. The idea consists in computing a single repair for the weighted and partially preordered ABox. To achieve this, we consider all the extensions of the partial preorder defined over the assertions, which yields as many compatible ABoxes for the initial ABox. Then, we compute the possibilistic repair associated with each one of the compatible ABoxes. Finally, we obtain a single repair for the initial ABox from the intersection of all the possibilistic repairs. We establish the compelling computational properties of our method thanks to an equivalent characterization based on the notion of π-accepted assertions. In essence, these are assertions with a priority level that is strictly higher than the priority level of at least one assertion of each conflict in the initial ABox. We show that the computation of the possibilistic repair of a partially preordered DL-Lite ontology can be performed in polynomial time in the size of the ABox.

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DOI : 10.5802/roia.35
Mot clés : Ontologie DL-Lite, Base de Connaissances Inconsistante, Théorie des Possibilités.
Keywords: DL-Lite Ontology, Inconsistent Knowledge Base, Possibility Theory.
Sihem Belabbes 1 ; Salem Benferhat 2

1 Laboratoire d’Intelligence Artificielle et Sémantique des Données (LIASD) IUT de Montreuil Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France
2 Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL), Université d’Artois & CNRS Lens, France
Licence : CC-BY 4.0
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Sihem Belabbes; Salem Benferhat. Une extension possibiliste pour les ontologies DL-Lite inconsistantes partiellement pré-ordonnées. Revue Ouverte d'Intelligence Artificielle, Volume 3 (2022) no. 3-4, pp. 373-391. doi : 10.5802/roia.35. https://roia.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/roia.35/

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