As the tableau algorithm would produce a lot of description overlaps when judging the satisfiabilities of concepts(thus wasting much space),a clause-based enhancing mode designed for the language ALCN is proposed.Th...As the tableau algorithm would produce a lot of description overlaps when judging the satisfiabilities of concepts(thus wasting much space),a clause-based enhancing mode designed for the language ALCN is proposed.This enhancing mode constructs a disjunctive normal form on concept expressions and keeps only one conjunctive clause,and then substitutes the obtained succinctest conjunctive clause for sub-concepts set in the labeling of nodes of a completion tree constructed by the tableau algorithm (such a process may be repeated as many times as needed).Due to the avoidance of tremendous descriptions redundancies caused by applying ∩- and ∪-rules of the ordinary tableau algorithm,this mode greatly improves the spatial performance as a result.An example is given to demonstrate the application of this enhancing mode and its reduction in the cost of space. Results show that the improvement is very outstanding.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60775029)the Science and Technology Program of Zhejiang Province(No.2007C33072)
文摘As the tableau algorithm would produce a lot of description overlaps when judging the satisfiabilities of concepts(thus wasting much space),a clause-based enhancing mode designed for the language ALCN is proposed.This enhancing mode constructs a disjunctive normal form on concept expressions and keeps only one conjunctive clause,and then substitutes the obtained succinctest conjunctive clause for sub-concepts set in the labeling of nodes of a completion tree constructed by the tableau algorithm (such a process may be repeated as many times as needed).Due to the avoidance of tremendous descriptions redundancies caused by applying ∩- and ∪-rules of the ordinary tableau algorithm,this mode greatly improves the spatial performance as a result.An example is given to demonstrate the application of this enhancing mode and its reduction in the cost of space. Results show that the improvement is very outstanding.