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Conditional narrowing with constructive negation

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Extensions of Logic Programming (ELP 1992)

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In this paper we present a narrower for conditional equational theories whose clauses allow disequations in their bodies (normal theories). Our approach deals with disequations in a constructive manner and thus allows non ground negative queries. We give a formal operational semantics for normal theories and define the notion of completion and stratification of a normal theory. We show that there exists one minimal model for the completion of a stratified normal theory. Then we prove the correctness of the operational semantics with respect to the completion of a stratified normal theory.

The work of the first author has been partially supported by CICYT under grant TIC 92-0793. The work of the second author has been partially supported by “Progetto Finalizzato Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo of C.N.R.” under grant n.9100880.PF69

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  1. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Apdo. 22012, 46020, Valencia, Spain

    María José Ramírez

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Corso Italia 40, 56125, Pisa, Italy

    Moreno Falaschi

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Ramírez, M.J., Falaschi, M. (1993). Conditional narrowing with constructive negation. In: Lamma, E., Mello, P. (eds) Extensions of Logic Programming. ELP 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56454-3_4

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