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Implementation Results in Classical Constructive Negation

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Logic Programming (ICLP 2004)

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Logic Programming has been advocated as a language for system specification, especially for those involving logical behaviours, rules and knowledge. However, modeling problems involving negation, which is quite natural in many cases, is somewhat limited if Prolog is used as the specification / implementation language. These restrictions are not related to theory viewpoint, where users can find many different models with their respective semantics; they concern practical implementation issues. The negation capabilities supported by current Prolog systems are rather constrained, and there is no a correct and complete implementation available. In this paper, we refine and propose some extensions to the classical method of constructive negation, providing the complete theoretical algorithm. Furthermore, we also discuss implementation issues providing a preliminary implementation and also an optimized one to negate predicates with a finite number of solutions.

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  1. LSIIS, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Susana Muñoz-Hernández & Juan José Moreno-Navarro

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  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

    Bart Demoen

  2. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA

    Vladimir Lifschitz

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Muñoz-Hernández, S., Moreno-Navarro, J.J. (2004). Implementation Results in Classical Constructive Negation. In: Demoen, B., Lifschitz, V. (eds) Logic Programming. ICLP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27775-0_20

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