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Guarded resolution for Answer Set Programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2010

V. W. MAREK  and
J. B. REMMEL
V. W. MAREK
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA (e-mail: marek@cs.uky.edu)
J. B. REMMEL
Affiliation:
Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92903, USA (e-mail: jremmel@ucsd.edu)
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Abstract

We investigate a proof system based on a guarded resolution rule and show its adequacy for the stable semantics of normal logic programs. As a consequence, we show that Gelfond–Lifschitz operator can be viewed as a proof-theoretic concept. As an application, we find a propositional theory EP whose models are precisely stable models of programs. We also find a class of propositional theories 𝓒P with the following properties. Propositional models of theories in 𝓒P are precisely stable models of P, and the theories in 𝓒T are of the size linear in the size of P.

Keywords

guarded resolutionproof-theory for Answer Set Programming

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 111 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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