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Description logics (DLs) are a family of formal languages for knowledge representation with numerous applications. Consequence-based reasoning is a promising approach to DL reasoning which can be traced back to the work of Franz Baader and his group on efficient subsumption algorithms for the \(\mathcal {EL}\) family of DLs circa 2004. Consequence-based reasoning combines ideas from hypertableaux and resolution in a way that has proved very effective in practice, and it still remains an active field of research. In this paper, we review the evolution of the field in the last 15 years and discuss the various consequence-based calculi that have been developed for different DLs, from the lightweight \(\mathcal {EL}\) to the expressive \(\mathcal {SROIQ}\). We thus provide a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis that highlights the common characteristics of these calculi and discusses their implementation.
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Tena Cucala, D., Cuenca Grau, B., Horrocks, I. (2019). 15 Years of Consequence-Based Reasoning. In: Lutz, C., Sattler, U., Tinelli, C., Turhan, AY., Wolter, F. (eds) Description Logic, Theory Combination, and All That. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11560. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22102-7_27
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