First-Order Rewritability of Ontology-Mediated Queries in Linear Temporal Logic
First-Order Rewritability of Ontology-Mediated Queries in Linear Temporal Logic
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10.1016/j.artint.2021.103536
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2020-04
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A. Artale;R. Kontchakov;Alisa Kovtunova;V. Ryzhikov;F. Wolter;M. Zakharyaschev
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A. Artale;R. Kontchakov;Alisa Kovtunova;V. Ryzhikov;F. Wolter;M. Zakharyaschev
We investigate ontology-based data access to temporal data. We consider temporal ontologies given in linear temporal logic LTL interpreted over discrete time (Z,<). Queries are given in LTL or MFO (<), monadic first-order logic with a built-in linear order. Our concern is first-order rewritability of ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) consisting of a temporal ontology and a query. By taking account of the temporal operators used in the ontology and distinguishing between ontologies given in full LTL and its core, Krom and Horn fragments, we identify a hierarchy of OMQs with atomic queries by proving rewritability into either FO (<), first-order logic with the built-in linear order, or FO (<,≡), which extends FO (<) with the standard arithmetic predicates x≡ 0 (mod n), for any fixed n> 1, or FO (RPR), which extends FO (<) with relational primitive recursion. In terms of circuit complexity, FO (<,≡)-and FO (RPR)-rewritability guarantee OMQ answering in uniform Image 1 and, respectively, Image 2. We obtain similar hierarchies for more expressive types of queries: positive LTL-formulas, monotone MFO (<)-and arbitrary MFO (<)-formulas. Our results are directly applicable if the temporal data to be accessed is one-dimensional; moreover, they lay foundations for investigating ontology-based access using combinations of temporal and description logics over two-dimensional temporal data.