Bound Your Models! How to Make OWL an ASP Modeling Language
This work facilitates the use of advanced semantic web modeling environments for the logic programming community through an 'off-label use' of OWL, addressing a specific integration challenge.
The authors tackled the problem of using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) as an answer set programming (ASP) language by introducing bounded model semantics, which enables translation into ASP for tasks like satisfiability, axiom entailment, model extraction, and enumeration.
To exploit the Web Ontology Language OWL as an answer set programming (ASP) language, we introduce the notion of bounded model semantics, as an intuitive and computationally advantageous alternative to its classical semantics. We show that a translation into ASP allows for solving a wide range of bounded-model reasoning tasks, including satisfiability and axiom entailment but also novel ones such as model extraction and enumeration. Ultimately, our work facilitates harnessing advanced semantic web modeling environments for the logic programming community through an "off-label use" of OWL.