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On Uniform Equivalence of Epistemic Logic Programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2019

WOLFGANG FABER,
MICHAEL MORAKOpen the ORCID record for MICHAEL MORAK[Opens in a new window] and
STEFAN WOLTRAN
WOLFGANG FABER
Affiliation:
University of Klagenfurt, Austria (e-mails: wolfgang.faber@aau.at, michael.morak@aau.at)
MICHAEL MORAK
Affiliation:
University of Klagenfurt, Austria (e-mails: wolfgang.faber@aau.at, michael.morak@aau.at)
STEFAN WOLTRAN
Affiliation:
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria (e-mail: woltran@dbai.tuwien.ac.at)
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Abstract

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Epistemic Logic Programs (ELPs) extend Answer Set Programming (ASP) with epistemic negation and have received renewed interest in recent years. This led to the development of new research and efficient solving systems for ELPs. In practice, ELPs are often written in a modular way, where each module interacts with other modules by accepting sets of facts as input, and passing on sets of facts as output. An interesting question then presents itself: under which conditions can such a module be replaced by another one without changing the outcome, for any set of input facts? This problem is known as uniform equivalence, and has been studied extensively for ASP. For ELPs, however, such an investigation is, as of yet, missing. In this paper, we therefore propose a characterization of uniform equivalence that can be directly applied to the language of state-of-the-art ELP solvers. We also investigate the computational complexity of deciding uniform equivalence for two ELPs, and show that it is on the third level of the polynomial hierarchy.

Keywords

Logic ProgrammingEpistemic NegationNon-monotonic ReasoningUniform Equivalence

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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 19 , Special Issue 5-6: 35th International Conference on Logic Programming , September 2019, pp. 826 - 840
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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