Completeness (knowledge bases)

The term completeness as applied to knowledge bases refers to two different concepts.

## Contents

* 1 Formal logic
* 2 Data management
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Formal logic

In formal logic, a knowledge base KB is complete if there is no formula α such that KB ⊭ α and KB ⊭ ¬α.

Example of knowledge base with incomplete knowledge:

KB := { A ∨ B }

Then we have KB ⊭ A and KB ⊭ ¬A.

In some cases, a consistent knowledge base can be made complete with the closed world assumption—that is, adding all not-entailed literals as negations to the knowledge base. In the above example though, this would not work because it would make the knowledge base inconsistent:

KB' = { A ∨ B, ¬A, ¬B }

In the case where KB := { P(a), Q(a), Q(b) }, KB ⊭ P(b) and KB ⊭ ¬P(b), so, with the closed world assumption, KB' = { P(a), ¬P(b), Q(a), Q(b) }, where KB' ⊨ ¬P(b).

## Data management

In data management, completeness is metaknowledge that can be asserted for parts of the KB via completeness assertions.[1][2]

As example, a knowledge base may contain complete information for predicates R and S, while nothing is asserted for predicate T. Then consider the following queries:

Q1 :- R(x), S(x)
Q2 :- R(x), T(x)

For Query 1, the knowledge base would return a complete answer, as only predicates that are themselves complete are intersected. For Query 2, no such conclusion could be made, as predicate T is potentially incomplete.

## See also

* Certain answer
* Vivid knowledge

## References

1. ↑ Integrity = Validity + Completeness. 1989.
2. ↑ Levy, Alon (1996). Obtaining complete answers from incomplete databases.

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