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SET THEORY FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LONGO, CRISTIANO Longo, Cristiano CANTONE, Domenico CANTONE, Domenico Set,Theory,knolwedge,representation,NP-completeness The decision problem in set theory has been intensively investigated in the last decades, and decision procedures or proofs of undecidability have been provided for several quantified and unquantified fragments of set theory. In this thesis we study the decision problem for three novel quantified fragments of set theory, which allow the explicit manipulation of ordered pairs. We present a decision procedure for each language of this family, and prove that all of these procedures are optimal (in the sense that they run in nondeterministic polynomial-time) when restricted to formulae with quantifier nesting bounded by a constant. The expressive power of languages of this family is then measured in terms of set-theoretical constructs they allow to express. In addition, these languages can be profitably employed in knowledge representation, since they allow to express a large amount description logic constructs. 2011-12-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11769/594343 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Università degli studi di Catania place:Catania license:PUBBLICO - Pubblico con Copyright license uri:iris.PUB02