Abstract
We present an ontological framework, based on
preference rankings, that allows users to express
their preferences between the knowledge explicitly
available in the ontology. Using this formalism, the
answers for a given query to an ontology can be
ranked by preference, allowing users to retrieve the
most preferred answers only. We provide a host of
complexity results for the main computational tasks
in this framework, for the general case, and for EL
and DL-Litecore as underlying ontology languages