Query Answering under the Any-World Assumption for Normal Logic Programs

Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference (KR2006)

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Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference (KR2006)

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Recently, Loyer and Straccia (2005) have introduced the Any-World Assumption (AWA) for normal logic programs as a generalization of the well-known notions of Closed World Assumption (CWA) and the Open World Assumption (OWA). The AWA allows any assignment (i.e. interpretation), over a truth space (bilattice), to be a default assumption and, thus, the CWA and OWA are just special cases. While a declarative and a fixed-point characterization for normal logic programs under the AWA has been given, the topic of this paper is to provide a simple, yet general top-down query answering procedure for this setting.