Model minimization—an alternative to circumscription
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Computing Circumscription Revisited: A Reduction Algorithm
Journal of Automated Reasoning
General Domain Circumscription in its First-Order Reduction
FAPR '96 Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical Reasoning
Epistemological problems of artificial intelligence
IJCAI'77 Proceedings of the 5th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Computing circumscription revisited: preliminary report
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A Reduction Result for Circumscribed Semi-Horn Formulas
Fundamenta Informaticae
Meta-Queries on Deductive Databases
Fundamenta Informaticae
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We first define general domain circumscription (GDC) and provide it with a semantics. GDC subsumes existing domain circumscription proposals in that it allows varying of arbitrary predicates, functions, or constants, to maximize the minimization of the domain of a theory. We then show that for the class of semi-universal theories without function symbols, that the domain circumscription of such theories can be constructively reduced to logically equivalent first-order theories by using an extension of the DLS algorithm, previously proposed by the authors for reducing second-order formulas. We also show that for a certain class of domain circumscribed theories, that any arbitrary second-order circumscription policy applied to these theories is guaranteed to be reducible to a logically equivalent first-order theory. In the case of semi-universal theories with functions and arbitrary theories which are not separated, we provide additional results, which although not guaranteed to provide reductions in all cases, do provide reductions in some cases. These results are based on the use of fixpoint reductions.