Semantics for Logic Programs with Choice Constructs on the Basis of Approximation Fixpoint Theory (Preliminary Report)

Jesse Heyninck*

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Abstract

Choice constructs are an important addition to the language of logic programming that greatly increase its modeling capabilities. Their semantics are non-deterministic, in the sense that their might be several interpretations that satisfy a choice construct. In this paper, the semantics of logic programs with choice operators are studied using the recently proposed non-deterministic approximation fixpoint theory. We show that this allows to represent the semantics of Liu, Pontenelli, Son and Trusczczyński and generalize these semantics to the three-valued case. Furthermore, the framework allows us to give a principled account of the difference and similarities between stable model semantics of choice programs and disjunctive logic programs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning co-located with the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023) and co-located with the 36th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2023)
EditorsKai Sauerwald, Matthias Thimm
PublisherCEUR-WS
Pages74-83
Number of pages10
Volume3464
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023
Event21st International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR 2023 - Rhodes, Greece
Duration: 2 Sept 20234 Sept 2023

Publication series

SeriesCEUR Workshop Proceedings
ISSN1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop21st International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR 2023
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes
Period2/09/234/09/23

Keywords

  • Approximation fixpoint theory
  • choice constructs
  • logic programming

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