Abstract
We investigate mca-programs, that is, logic programs with clauses built of monotone cardinality atoms of the form kX, where k is a non-negative integer and X is a finite set of propositional atoms. We develop a theory of mca-programs. We demonstrate that the operational concept of the one-step provability operator generalizes to mca-programs, but the generalization involves nondeterminism. Our main results show that the formalism of mca-programs is a common generalization of (1) normal logic programming with its semantics of models, supported models and stable models, (2) logic programming with cardinality atoms and with the semantics of stable models, as defined by Niemelä, Simons and Soininen, and (3) of disjunctive logic programming with the possible-model semantics of Sakama and Inoue.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning |
| Editors | Ilkka Niemela, Vladimir Lifschitz |
| Pages | 154-166 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 354020721X, 9783540207214 |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Event | 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning , LPNMR 2004 - Fort Lauderdale, United States Duration: Jan 6 2004 → Jan 8 2004 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science) |
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| Volume | 2923 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
| Conference | 7th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning , LPNMR 2004 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Fort Lauderdale |
| Period | 1/6/04 → 1/8/04 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science