Stable Model Semantics - Properties of The Stable Model Semantics

Properties of The Stable Model Semantics

In this section, as in the definition of a stable model above, by a logic program we mean a set of rules of the form

where are ground atoms.

Head atoms: If an atom belongs to a stable model of a logic program then is the head of one of the rules of .

Minimality: Any stable model of a logic program is minimal among the models of relative to set inclusion.

The antichain property: If and are stable models of the same logic program then is not a proper subset of . In other words, the set of stable models of a program is an antichain.

NP-completeness: Testing whether a finite ground logic program has a stable model is NP-complete.

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