Datalog+/-: A Family of Logical Knowledge Representationand Query Languages for New ApplicationsKeynote Lecture

摘要

This paper summarizes results on a recently in-troduced family of Datalog-based languages, called Datalog+/-, which is a new framework for tractable ontology querying, and for a variety of other applications. Datalog+/- extends plain Datalog by features such as existentially quantified rule heads and, at the same time, restricts the rule syntax so as to achieve decidability and tractability. In particular, we discuss three paradigms ensuring decidability: chase termination, guarded-ness, and stickiness.