OVERVIEW

Konclude is a tableau-based reasoner for the Description Logic SROIQV(D), i.e.,SROIQ(D) + Nominal Schemas, and covers almost all features of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 2 DL. Konclude is still under active development and the current version probably contains some bugs and other errors. If you find an unexpected/strange behaviour you are cordially invited to report it. See http://konclude.com/feedback.html for details.

LICENSING

Konclude is released as free software, i.e., you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with Konclude. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Konclude is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For more details see GNU Lesser General Public License.

Konclude uses the following libraries:

  - Qt 5.11 or above (https://www.qt.io/download), released under LGPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html). Note that Konclude uses slightly modified versions of Qt containers (QMap, QHash, QList, see Source/Utilities/Container/CQtManagedRestrictedModification* files) for an integrated memory management, which were released under LGPLv2.1 and, hence, are available under the GPLv3 in oder to ensure compatiblity with LGPLv3 (cf. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility).

  - Redland RDF Libraries (http://librdf.org/), released under the LGPL 2.1 (or newer), GPL 2, and Apache 2 licenses. Note that the Redland RDF Libraries are optional and only required if RDF triples have to be parsed and mapped to OWL axioms or if more complex SPARQL queries have to be answered. For the latter, it is recommended to use the forked version of the Redland Rasqal query library on Konclude's Github page (https://github.com/konclude/rasqal) since it contains a few fixes and performance improvements.

USAGE

The binaries of Konclude (and possibly some shared libraries) are located in the Binaries directory. However, you can use the starter scripts in the main directory for directly invoking Konclude with Konclude (Windows) or ./Konclude (Linux, Mac). The command line parameter '-h' shows the usage options for Konclude. Some examples are located in the Tests directory. See http://konclude.com/ for detailed usage instructions.

  - COMMAND LINE:
    
    Basic reasoning tasks such as classification, consistency, class satisfiability, and realisation can be directly invoked with the command line interface. For this, Konclude has to be called with the corresponding command (classification, consistency, satisfiability, or realisation) and at least the input file has to be specified with -i FILEPATH. The output file is optional and can be set with the -o FILEPATH argument. The	class satisfiability checking additionally requires the IRI of the class that has to be tested, which has to be specified with -x IRI.
    
    Please note that Konclude natively only supports ontologies in the OWL 2 XML [1] or in the OWL 2 Functional Style format [2]. The optional integration of the Redland RDF Libraries allow for parsing RDF serialization formats, but the mapping to OWL constructs must be considered as experimental. Hence, you may use the protege editor [3] to convert ontologies in other syntaxes into a fully supported format.
    
    Examples (omit ./ on Windows):
    
    ./Konclude classification -i Tests/roberts-family-full-D.owl.xml -o roberts-family-full-class-hierarchy.owl.xml
    ./Konclude satisfiability -i Tests/roberts-family-full-D.owl.xml -x http://www.co-ode.org/roberts/family-tree.owl#Aunt

  - OWLLINK:
    
    Furthermore, Konclude processes OWLlink [4] requests with the XML binding [5].
    Konclude is optimised to read/write the OWLlink requests/responses from/to files.
    For this, Konclude has to be called with the owllinkfile command and at least
    with the parameter -i FILEPATH, where FILEPATH specifies the OWLlink request/query
    file. The OWLlink response file can be specified with the -o FILEPATH parameter.
    
    Examples (omit ./ on Windows):
    
    ./Konclude owllinkfile -i Tests/galen-classify-request.xml -o response.xml
    ./Konclude owllinkfile -i Tests/roberts-family-full-D-classify-realize-request.xml
    ./Konclude owllinkfile -c Configs/default-config.xml -i Tests/1b-satisfiability-request.xml

    Currently, Konclude supports only the following subset of OWLlink commands:
    
      - GetDescription, CreateKB, GetSettings, Set, ReleaseKB, Tell,
        LoadOntologies (IRIs must be files), Classify, Realize
      - GetAllObjectProperties, GetAllIndividuals, GetAllClasses, GetKBLanguage
      - IsClassSatisfiable, GetSubClassHierarchy, GetSubClasses (only for atomic concepts),
        GetSuperClasses (only for atomic concepts), GetEquivalentClasses (only for atomic concepts)
      - GetTypes, GetFlattenedTypes, GetInstances (only for atomic concepts),
        GetFlattenedInstances (only for atomic concepts)
    
    Furthermore, all OWL 2 ontologies/axioms used in LoadOntologies/Tell
    commands should be in the OWL 2 XML [1] or in the OWL 2 Functional Style [2]
    format and Konclude does currently NOT process any annotations. The protege
    editor [2] can be used to convert OWL 2 ontologies between different
    formats.
    
    Konclude can also be used as an OWLlink server that answers OWLlink requests
    sent over HTTP. For this, Konclude has to be called with the 'owllinkserver'
    command. The listening port can optionally be specified by the parameter -p,
    otherwise the default port 8080 is used.
    
    Examples (omit ./ on Windows):
    
    ./Konclude owllinkserver -p 8080

    Large ontologies should separately be loaded with the LoadOntologies
    OWLlink command, because the request files are completely loaded
    into the main memory of the system. In contrast, the files referenced by
    the LoadOntologies commands are parsed in a stream-based manner.

  - SPARQL:
    
    A trivial SPARQL HTTP server is integrated that supports processing of some basic SPARQL Update commands and answering of some ABox related queries. Note that Konclude by itself can only process queries with simple Basic Graph Patterns, where variables are used for individuals. More complex SPARQL queries (e.g., with UNION, OPTIONAL, FILTER, MINUS, etc.) are supported via the Redland RASQAL integration, which is however not fully optimized. Note that the SPARQL requests/queries must be encoded as HTTP POST requests. Alternatively the SPARQL requests can also directly be loaded from files with the sparqlfile command. Note that the last loaded ontology is interpreted as the default graph, i.e., it is automatically used if no graph/knowledge base is specified in the query.
    
    Examples (omit ./ on Windows):
    
    ./Konclude sparqlserver -p 8080 -c Configs/querying-config.xml
    ./Konclude sparqlfile -s Tests/lubm-univ-bench-sparql-load-and-query-test.sparql -o Tests/query-answers.xml -c Configs/querying-config.xml
    ./Konclude sparqlfile -s Tests/roberts-family-full-sparql-existential-variables-query-test.sparql -i Tests/roberts-family-full-D.owl.xml

    Currently, the following SPARQL commands/queries are (partially) supported:
    
      - LOAD, SELECT, ASK
    
    Note that the settings of the Configs/querying-config.xml file are automatically enabled if the sparqlserver or sparqlfile commands are used in order to deactivate some optimizations that are not yet compatible with the integrated query answering engine. However, the Configs/querying-config.xml file also contains some commented out settings that may be interesting for configuring some query answering aspects in more detail (e.g., concurrency, interpretation of anonymous variables, etc.).

  - CONFIGURATION:
    
    Konclude can be configured with configuration files, which are also OWLlink request files where only the 'Set' command is used. 'Set' commands without the specification of a specific knowledge base configure the default settings in Konclude, which are used to instantiate the configurations of newly created knowledge bases. It is highly recommended to NOT change the default configuration of Konclude, because many available configurations are only for debugging, testing and experimenting. However, if Konclude requires too much main memory, then you can try to deactivate the satisfiability or unsatisfiability caching (see example configuration file in Configs directory). The parameter -c FILEPATH can be used to load a configuration file.

REQUIREMENTS, INSTALLATION, BUILD

On GitHub, there is an up-to-date Docker image of Konclude available (docker pull konclude/konclude, cf. https://hub.docker.com/r/konclude/konclude), which should run on most platforms with Docker installed.

In principle, Konclude requires Qt 5.11 libraries or above [6], but they are included (or statically integrated/linked into the binary) for the released versions for most platfroms. If this is not the case, then you should install them manually on your system.

On Mac, you may be required to deactivate the 'Unidentified Developer' warning dialogue for Konclude (cf. [10]).

On Windows-based platforms, it may further be necessary to install the .Net Framework [7] and the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package [8] for executing Konclude.

Konclude can be built by running qmake (which is part of the Qt Framework) for Konclude.pro or KoncludeWithoutRedland.pro, e.g.,

qmake -o Makefile Konclude.pro

and then by compiling the sources with the generated makefile, i.e., the command

make

has to be executed/called. Note that you may have to adapt the paths to the Redland libraries in the Konclude.pro file. If you have docker installed, then you may simply use the provided Dockerfiles [9] for building Konclude (which download/install all dependent libraries, compile Konclude and create a statically linked binary). For this, go into the KoncludeDocker' directory and run the following command:

./build_release.sh

For more details for building with docker, see also KoncludeDocker/README.md.

Setting up Konclude for building/compiling with Visual Studio 2015/2017:

  - Make sure that Qt is installed and the environment variable QTDIR is set to the QT directory
  - Install the QT VS Tools/Package extension for Visual Studio (enables more comfortable debugging)
  - Copy the QT DLLs (Qt5Networkd.dll, Qt5Network.dll, Qt5Xmld.dll, Qt5Xml.dll, Qt5Cored.dll, Qt5Core.dll, Qt5Concurrentd.dll, Qt5Concurrent.dll) into the root directory of Konclude

CHANGELOG

  - Konclude v0.7.0-1138:
    
      - Fixed crash for parsing anonymous individuals.

  - Konclude v0.7.0-1137:
    
      - Fixed crashes for SPARQL FILTER expressions in combination with Redland Rasqal.

  - Konclude v0.7.0-1135:
    
      - (Limited) SPARQL and query answering support with Redland Rasqal.
      - Parallelized consistency checking and query answering.
      - Several minor reasoning improvements.
      - Several bug fixes.

  - Konclude v0.6.2-965 (pre-release):
    
      - Support of more SPARQL features (e.g., OPTIONAL, UNION, FILTER, aggregates, etc.) via Redland Rasqal.
      - Several bug fixes.

  - Konclude v0.6.2-842 (pre-release):
    
      - Experimental conjunctive query answering engine based on absorption.
      - Simple SPARQL HTTP server.
      - Experimental support of RDF serializations of ontologies via the Redland RDF libraries.
      - Representative completion graph caching for efficient indexing, parallel consistency checking, and improved handling of larger ontologies.
      - Docker images for building and running Konclude.
      - Very basic and experimental JNI bridge.
      - Role classification and realization.
      - Several bug fixes.

  - Konclude v0.6.2:
    
      - Several minor bug fixes.

  - Konclude v0.6.1:
    
      - Several bug fixes.
      - Minor performance improvements.

  - Konclude v0.6.0:
    
      - Several fixed bugs and memory leaks.
      - Many performance improvements (especially for realisation).
      - Improved error reporting.
      - Almost complete datatype support.
      - OWL 2 Functional Style support.
      - Loading of ontologies via HTTP and FTP.

  - Konclude v0.5.0:
    
      - First release of Konclude.

REFERENCES

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-xml-serialization/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/

[3] http://protege.stanford.edu/

[4] http://www.w3.org/Submission/owllink-structural-specification/

[5] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2010/SUBM-owllink-httpxml-binding-20100701/

[6] http://qt-project.org/downloads

[7] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

[8] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

[9] https://github.com/konclude/KoncludeDocker

[10] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac
