{"department":[{"_id":"574"}],"status":"public","author":[{"first_name":"Anselm Peter Heinz","id":"109969","last_name":"Haak","full_name":"Haak, Anselm Peter Heinz"},{"last_name":"Koopmann","full_name":"Koopmann, Patrick","first_name":"Patrick"},{"id":"99353","first_name":"Yasir","last_name":"Mahmood","full_name":"Mahmood, Yasir"},{"last_name":"Turhan","full_name":"Turhan, Anni-Yasmin","first_name":"Anni-Yasmin","id":"104470"}],"abstract":[{"text":"Abduction is the task of computing a sufficient extension of a knowledge base (KB) that entails a conclusion not entailed by the original KB. It serves to compute explanations, or hypotheses, for such missing entailments. While this task has been intensively investigated for perfect data and under classical semantics, less is known about abduction when erroneous data results in inconsistent KBs. In this paper we define a suitable notion of abduction under repair semantics and propose a set of minimality criteria that guides abduction towards `useful' hypotheses. We provide initial complexity results on deciding existence of and verifying abductive solutions with these criteria, under different repair semantics and for the description logics DL-Lite and EL_bot.","lang":"eng"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_created":"2025-08-29T07:58:08Z","date_updated":"2025-08-29T08:03:40Z","type":"preprint","title":"Why not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs","citation":{"ama":"Haak APH, Koopmann P, Mahmood Y, Turhan A-Y. Why not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs. <i>arXiv:250721955</i>. Published online 2025.","chicago":"Haak, Anselm Peter Heinz, Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood, and Anni-Yasmin Turhan. “Why Not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs.” <i>ArXiv:2507.21955</i>, 2025.","apa":"Haak, A. P. H., Koopmann, P., Mahmood, Y., &#38; Turhan, A.-Y. (2025). Why not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs. In <i>arXiv:2507.21955</i>.","short":"A.P.H. Haak, P. Koopmann, Y. Mahmood, A.-Y. Turhan, ArXiv:2507.21955 (2025).","bibtex":"@article{Haak_Koopmann_Mahmood_Turhan_2025, title={Why not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs}, journal={arXiv:2507.21955}, author={Haak, Anselm Peter Heinz and Koopmann, Patrick and Mahmood, Yasir and Turhan, Anni-Yasmin}, year={2025} }","mla":"Haak, Anselm Peter Heinz, et al. “Why Not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs.” <i>ArXiv:2507.21955</i>, 2025.","ieee":"A. P. H. Haak, P. Koopmann, Y. Mahmood, and A.-Y. Turhan, “Why not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs,” <i>arXiv:2507.21955</i>. 2025."},"_id":"61065","year":"2025","external_id":{"arxiv":["2507.21955"]},"user_id":"99353","publication":"arXiv:2507.21955"}