Ontology Querying: Datalog Strikes Back

In this tutorial we address the problem of ontology querying, that is, the problem of answering queries against a theory constituted by facts (the data) and inference rules (the ontology). A varied landscape of ontology languages exists in the scientific literature, with several degrees of complexity of query processing. We argue that Datalog(+/-), a family of languages derived from Datalog, is a powerful tool for ontology querying. To illustrate the impact of this comeback of Datalog, we present the basic paradigms behind the main Datalog(+/-) as well as some recent extensions. We also present some efficient query processing techniques for some cases.