First Order-Rewritability and Containment
of Conjunctive Queries in Horn Description Logics
Abstract
We study FO-rewritability of conjunctive queries in the presence of ontologies formulated in a description logic between EL and Horn-SHIF, along with related query containment problems. Apart from providing characterizations, we establish complexity results ranging from E XP T IME via NE XP T IME to 2E XP T IME, pointing out several interesting effects. In particular, FO-rewriting is more complex for conjunctive queries than for atomic queries when inverse roles are present, but not otherwise.