Graph theoretical characterization and computation of answer sets

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Linke

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We give a graph theoretical characterization of answer sets of normal logic programs. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between answer sets and a special, non-standard graph coloring of so-called block graphs of logic programs. This leads us to an alternative implementation paradigm to compute answer sets, by computing non-standard graph colorings. Our approach is rule-based and not atom-based like most of the currently known methods. We present an implementation for computing answer sets which works on polynomial space.