OWL 2 DL restrictions: an issue

Dear all,

I wonder whether the Global Restrictions on Axioms in OWL 2 DL 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/#The_Restrictions_on_the_Axiom_Closure) refer 
to the deductive closure of an ontology.

If not, I think that there could be some problems with the 
specifications of the restrictions for an OWL 2 DL ontology.

Consider, for instance, an ontology containing:
- two sibling classes, A and B
- an axiom stating that  A and B are disjoint
- an object property p
- two axioms stating that the domain and range of p are A and B, 
respectively
- nothing else

Such an ontology seems to be in the OWL 2 DL profile.

However, such an ontology implicitly states that p is transitive, 
irreflexive and asymmetric. Thus, the deductive closure of the original 
ontology would not be in the OWL 2 DL profile.

I checked the original ontology and its deductive closure with the 
Manchester University OWL validator 
(http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/validator/), getting that the original 
ontology is in the OWL 2 DL profile, while its deductive closure is not, 
which seems rather counterintuitive.

For computing the deductive closure of the original ontology I used 
HermiT 1.3.6

Thanks!

Best regards,
diego magro

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Diego Magro
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita` di Torino
via Pessinetto 12
10149 Torino Italy
Tel. +39 011 6706796
Fax. +39 011 751603
magro[at]di.unito.it
http://www.di.unito.it/~magro/

Received on Monday, 19 November 2012 09:05:54 UTC