Almost definite causal theories

2004-01-01
Dogandag, S
Ferraris, P
Lifschitz, V
The language of nonmonotonic causal theories, defined by Norman McCain and Hudson Turner, is an important formalism for representing properties of actions. For causal theories of a special kind, called definite, a simple translation into the language of logic programs under the answer set semantics is available. In this paper we define a similar translation for causal theories of a more general form, called almost definite. Such theories can be used, for instance, to characterize the transitive closure of a binary relation. The new translation leads to an implementation of a subclass of almost definite causal theories that employs the answer set solver SMODELS as the search engine.
LOGIC PROGRAMMING AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING, PROCEEDINGS

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Citation Formats
S. Dogandag, P. Ferraris, and V. Lifschitz, “Almost definite causal theories,” LOGIC PROGRAMMING AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING, PROCEEDINGS, pp. 74–86, 2004, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67079.