Minimal founded semantics for disjunctive logic programs and deductive databases

In this paper, we propose a variant of stable model semantics for disjunctive logic programming and deductive databases. The semantics, called minimal founded, generalizes stable model semantics for normal (i.e. non-disjunctive) programs, but differs from disjunctive stable model semantics (the exte...

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Veröffentlicht in:Theory and practice of logic programming Jg. 4; H. 1-2; S. 75 - 93
Hauptverfasser: FURFARO, FILIPPO, GRECO, GIANLUIGI, GRECO, SERGIO
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2004
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ISSN:1471-0684, 1475-3081
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper, we propose a variant of stable model semantics for disjunctive logic programming and deductive databases. The semantics, called minimal founded, generalizes stable model semantics for normal (i.e. non-disjunctive) programs, but differs from disjunctive stable model semantics (the extension of stable model semantics for disjunctive programs). Compared with disjunctive stable model semantics, minimal founded semantics seems to be more intuitive, it gives meaning to programs which are meaningless under stable model semantics and is no harder to compute. More specifically, minimal founded semantics differs from stable model semantics only for disjunctive programs having constraint rules or rules working as constraints. We study the expressive power of the semantics, and show that for general disjunctive datalog programs it has the same power as disjunctive stable model semantics.
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ISSN:1471-0684
1475-3081
DOI:10.1017/S1471068403001704