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Functional answer set programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2011

PEDRO CABALAR
PEDRO CABALAR*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Corunna, Corunna, Spain (e-mail: cabalar@udc.es)
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Abstract

In this paper we propose an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to deal with (possibly partial) evaluable functions. To this aim, we start from the most general logical counterpart of ASP, Quantified Equilibrium Logic (QEL), and propose a variant QEL=ℱ where the set of functions is partitioned into Herbrand functions (or constructors) and evaluable functions (or operations). We show how this extension has a direct connection to Scott's Logic of Existence, and introduce several useful derived operators, some of them directly borrowed from Scott's formalisation. Using this general framework for arbitrary theories, we proceed to focus on a syntactic subclass that corresponds to normal logic programs with evaluable functions and equality. We provide a translation of this class into function-free normal programs and consider a safety condition so that the resulting program is also safe, under the usual meaning in ASP. Finally, we also establish a formal comparison to Lin and Wang's approach (FASP) dealing with evaluable total functions.

Keywords

answer set programmingequilibrium logicpartial functionsfunctional logic programming

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 11 , Special Issue 2-3: The 24th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2008) , March 2011 , pp. 203 - 233
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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