The Expressive Powers of the Logic Programming Semantics
Summary: Compares expressive power of 3-valued program completion, well-founded, and stable semantics for deductive databases, pinning down the exact power of the stable semantics and, under broad conditions, that of the well-founded semantics. Over infinite Herbrand models proves equivalence of the three semantics but, via a notion of uniform translatability, shows the well-founded semantics is strictly more expressive than 3-valued completion. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| 12,842 | Adding Disjunction to Datalog (Extended Abstract) | 1994 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
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| 839 | Every Logic Program Has a Natural Stratification And an Iterated Least Fixed Point Model | 1989 | PODS | 0.00015989602 |
| 1,166 | Unfounded Sets and Well-Founded Semantics for General Logic Programs | 1988 | PODS | 0.00013542063 |
| 1,208 | The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract) | 1989 | PODS | 0.00013272698 |
| 1,624 | A Procedural Semantics for Well Founded Negation in Logic Programs | 1989 | PODS | 0.00011095143 |
| 1,983 | Logic Programming as Constructivism: A Formalization and its Application to Databases | 1989 | PODS | 9.8694826e-05 |
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