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Possibilistic Answer Set Programming Revisited

Artificial Intelligence 2012-03-19 v1

Abstract

Possibilistic answer set programming (PASP) extends answer set programming (ASP) by attaching to each rule a degree of certainty. While such an extension is important from an application point of view, existing semantics are not well-motivated, and do not always yield intuitive results. To develop a more suitable semantics, we first introduce a characterization of answer sets of classical ASP programs in terms of possibilistic logic where an ASP program specifies a set of constraints on possibility distributions. This characterization is then naturally generalized to define answer sets of PASP programs. We furthermore provide a syntactic counterpart, leading to a possibilistic generalization of the well-known Gelfond-Lifschitz reduct, and we show how our framework can readily be implemented using standard ASP solvers.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3466,
  title  = {Possibilistic Answer Set Programming Revisited},
  author = {Kim Bauters and Steven Schockaert and Martine De Cock and Dirk Vermeir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3466},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2010)

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