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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.
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Doğandağ, S., Ferraris, P., Lifschitz, V. (2003). Almost Definite Causal Theories. In: Lifschitz, V., Niemelä, I. (eds) Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning. LPNMR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2923. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24609-1_9
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