On the Undecidability of the Situation Calculus Extended with Description Logic Ontologies

Authors: Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Mikhail Soutchanski

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Research Type Theoretical In this paper we investigate situation calculus action theories extended with ontologies, expressed as description logics TBoxes that act as state constraints. We show that this combination, while natural and desirable, is particularly problematic: it leads to undecidability of the simplest form of reasoning, namely satisfiability, even for the simplest kinds of description logics and the simplest kind of situation calculus action theories. The aim of this paper is to investigate how deep this problem really is. To do so, we consider a simplified setting... Here we show that in the above setting the simplest form of reasoning, namely satisfiability, the minimal requirement for any logical theory, is undecidable, even when the state constraints are expressed in the simplest description logics, such as DL-Litecore, and the situation calculus action theory is of the simplest form, namely context free in the sense of [Reiter, 1991] and local effect [Vassos et al., 2008].
Researcher Affiliation Academia Diego Calvanese Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Bolzano, Italy calvanese@inf.unibz.it Giuseppe De Giacomo Sapienza Universit a di Roma Roma, Italy degiacomo@dis.uniroma1.it Mikhail Soutchanski Ryerson University Toronto, Canada mes@cs.ryerson.ca
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