Facilitating DL-based hybrid reasoning with inference fusion.

Hu, Bo; Arana, Inés; Compatangelo, Ernesto

Abstract

We present an extension to DL-based taxonomic reasoning by means of inference fusion, i.e. the dynamic combination of inferences from distributed heterogeneous reasoners. Our approach integrates results from a DL-based system with results from a constraint solver under the direction of a global reasoning coordinator. Inference fusion is performed by (i) processing heterogeneous input knowledge, producing suitable homogeneous input knowledge for each specialised reasoner; (ii) activating each reasoner when necessary, collecting its results and passing them to the other reasoner if appropriate; (iii) combining the results of the two reasoners. We discuss the benefits of our approach and demonstrate our ideas by proposing a language ( (D)/S) and a reasoning system (Concor) which uses knowledge bases written in (D)/S and supports hybrid reasoning. We illustrate our ideas with an example.

Citation

HU, B., ARANA, I. and COMPATANGELO, E. 2003. Facilitating DL-based hybrid reasoning with inference fusion. Knowledge-based systems [online], 16(5-6): proceedings of the 22nd British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) international conference on knowledge-based systems and applied artificial intelligence (ES2002), 10-12 December 2002, Cambridge, UK, pages 253-260. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0950-7051(03)00026-1

• Journal Article Type: Conference Paper
• Conference Name: 22nd British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) international conference on knowledge-based systems and applied artificial intelligence (ES2002)
• Conference Location: Cambridge, UK
• Start Date: Dec 10, 2002
• End Date: Dec 12, 2002
• Acceptance Date: Jul 31, 2003
• Online Publication Date: Jul 31, 2003
• Publication Date: Jul 31, 2003
• Deposit Date: Feb 24, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 24, 2009
• Journal: Knowledge-based systems
• Print ISSN: 0950-7051
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 5-6
• Pages: 253-260
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0950-7051%2803%2900026-1
• Keywords: Descriptive logics; Hybrid reasoning; Constraint reasoning
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/307