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From: Till Mossakowski <Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:44:39 +0200
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Dear Michael,    (01)

in the OntoIOp telcon, we have iscussed the topic ontology approximation 
(and the DOL approximation construct "ONTO approximated_in LOGIC with 
METHOD"), and you have asked for references.    (02)

Some references on approximation of OWL within OWL sublanguages are:
Jeff Z. Pan and Edward Thomas. Approximating OWL-DL ontologies. In AAAI, 
pages 1434–1439, 2007.
Yuan Ren, Jeff Z. Pan, and Yuting Zhao. Soundness preserving 
approximation for TBox reasoning. In AAAI, 2010.
Carsten Lutz, Inanç Seylan, and Frank Wolter. An automata-theoretic 
approach to uniform interpolation and approximation in the description 
logic EL. In Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: 
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference, KR 2012, Rome, 
Italy, June 10-14, 2012, 2012.
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~clu/papers/archive/KR12b.pdf    (03)

The last paper provides an example of an ELU ontology that cannot be 
optimally approximated in EL, in the sense that there exists an infinite 
chain of better and better approximation.    (04)

Concerning the approximation of propositional logic within its Horn 
fragment:
B. Selman and H. A. Kautz. Knowledge compilation and theory 
approximation. J. ACM, 43(2):193–224, 1996.    (05)

Concerning the approximation of FOL within sublanguages, there is:
A. del Val. An analysis of approximate knowledge compilation. In 
IJCAI’95, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference 
on Artificial Intelligence, pages 830–836, 1995.
A. del Val. First order LUB approximations: characterization and 
algorithms. Artificial Intelligence, 162(1-2):7–48, 2005.    (06)

Concerning the approximation of FOL within OWL, there is some 
preliminary work of a PhD student of mine:
Klaus Lüttich: Approximation of Ontologies in CASL. FOIS 2006: 335-346
which was later extended in his PhD thesis (which I can provide on request).    (07)

All the best,
Till
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