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Loop formulas for description logic programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2010

YISONG WANG ,
JIA-HUAI YOU ,
LI YAN YUAN  and
YI-DONG SHEN
YISONG WANG
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
JIA-HUAI YOU
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
LI YAN YUAN
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
YI-DONG SHEN
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Computer Science Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Abstract

Description Logic Programs (dl-programs) proposed by Eiter et al. constitute an elegant yet powerful formalism for the integration of answer set programming with description logics, for the Semantic Web. In this paper, we generalize the notions of completion and loop formulas of logic programs to description logic programs and show that the answer sets of a dl-program can be precisely captured by the models of its completion and loop formulas. Furthermore, we propose a new, alternative semantics for dl-programs, called the canonical answer set semantics, which is defined by the models of completion that satisfy what are called canonical loop formulas. A desirable property of canonical answer sets is that they are free of circular justifications. Some properties of canonical answer sets are also explored.

Keywords

semantic webdescription logic programsanswer setsloop formulas

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 10 , Special Issue 4-6: 26th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2010 , pp. 531 - 545
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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