RE: Expressivity of sub property chains

Thanks, Ian, this is really good news (not only to my uncle ;-)).

Cheers,
Michael


Ian Horrocks wrote on September 08, 2007 3:46 PM:

>Yes, you get your uncle -- in later versions of our work on complex  
>role inclusion axioms (on which this aspect of OWL 1.1 is based) we  
>were able to relax the restrictions that ensure decidability. It has  
>recently been shown that even further relaxation of these  
>restrictions is possible [1].
>
>Ian
>
>[1] Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulrike Sattler, Evgeny Zolin. How many legs do I  
>have? Non-simple roles in number restrictions revisited. In Proc. of  
>the 14th Int. Conf. on Logic for Programming, Artificial  
>Intelligence, and Reasoning (LPAR'2007). http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ 
>~ezolin/pub/zolin_2007_LPAR.pdf
>
>On 8 Sep 2007, at 13:53, Michael Schneider wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, list!
>>
>> I wonder if it will be possible in OWL-1.1 to express (the one  
>> direction of)
>> the "uncle" relation
>>
>>     (?x hasParent ?y), (?y hasBrother ?z) -> (?x hasUncle ?z)
>>
>> or not?

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