Efficient Answer Enumeration in Description Logics with Functional Roles
Carsten Lutz, Marcin Przybyłko · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023
We study the enumeration of answers to ontology-mediated queries when the ontology is formulated in a description logic that supports functional roles and the query is a CQ. In particular, we show that enumeration is possible with linear preprocessing and constant delay when a certain extension of the CQ (pertaining to functional roles) is acyclic and free-connex acyclic. This holds both for complete answers and for partial answers. We provide matching lower bounds for the case where the query is self-join free.