Real-time reasoning in OWL2 for GDPR compliance

• Published in: Artificial intelligence Vol. 289; p. 103389
• Main Authors: Bonatti, Piero A., Ioffredo, Luca, Petrova, Iliana M., Sauro, Luigi, Siahaan, Ida R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.12.2020; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Compliance; GDPR; Import-by-query; Imports; Knowledge compilation; Knowledge representation; Ontology; Real time; Reasoning; Semantic policy languages; Structural subsumption; Tractable OWL2 fragments; Tractable OWL2 fragments; Import-by-query; Semantic policy languages; Structural subsumption; Knowledge compilation; GDPR

This paper shows how knowledge representation and reasoning techniques can be used to support organizations in complying with the GDPR, that is, the new European data protection regulation. This work is carried out in a European H2020 project called SPECIAL. Data usage policies, the consent of data...