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Relational theories with null values and non-herbrand stable models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

VLADIMIR LIFSCHITZ ,
KARL PICHOTTA  and
FANGKAI YANG
VLADIMIR LIFSCHITZ
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (e-mail: vl@cs.utexas.edu, pichotta@cs.utexas.edu, fkyang@cs.utexas.edu)
KARL PICHOTTA
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (e-mail: vl@cs.utexas.edu, pichotta@cs.utexas.edu, fkyang@cs.utexas.edu)
FANGKAI YANG
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (e-mail: vl@cs.utexas.edu, pichotta@cs.utexas.edu, fkyang@cs.utexas.edu)
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Abstract

Generalized relational theories with null values in the sense of Reiter are first-order theories that provide a semantics for relational databases with incomplete information. In this paper we show that any such theory can be turned into an equivalent logic program, so that models of the theory can be generated using computational methods of answer set programming. As a step towards this goal, we develop a general method for calculating stable models under the domain closure assumption but without the unique name assumption.

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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 12 , Issue 4-5: 28th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2012 , pp. 565 - 582
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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