The Valid Model Semantics for Logic Programs
Summary: Introduces the valid model semantics: a three-valued semantics for logic programs with negation, set-terms, grouping and non-ground facts, defined via a ‘normal form’ computation. Naturally extends/refines well-founded semantics, is founded and subsumed by every regular and two-valued stable model, yielding clearer intuition and advantages over prior formulations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Catriel Beeri
- 2. Raghu Ramakrishnan
- 3. Divesh Srivastava
- 4. S. Sudarshan
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,855 | The Well-Founded Semantics of Aggregation (Extended Abstract) | 1992 | PODS | 5.8740691e-05 |
| 6,539 | On the Power of Algebras with Recursion | 1993 | SIGMOD | 5.02287e-05 |
| 8,331 | New Data Models and Languages - the Challenge | 1992 | PODS | 4.5435639e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,205 | The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract) | 1989 | PODS | 0.00013285448 |
| 1,381 | Modular Stratification and Magic Sets for DATALOG Programs with Negation | 1990 | PODS | 0.00012283951 |
| 3,446 | Minimum and Maximum Predicates in Logic Programming | 1991 | PODS | 7.0861064e-05 |
| 4,223 | Monotonic Aggregation in Deductive Databases | 1992 | PODS | 6.3474752e-05 |
| 4,757 | Stable Models and Non-Determinism in Logic Programs with Negation | 1990 | PODS | 5.9434944e-05 |
| 4,855 | The Well-Founded Semantics of Aggregation (Extended Abstract) | 1992 | PODS | 5.8740691e-05 |
| 8,392 | Three-Valued Formalization of Logic Programming: Is It Needed? | 1990 | PODS | 4.5283415e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,852 | Negation and Minimality in Non-Horn Databases | 1993 | PODS | 6.7017663e-05 |
| 1,205 | The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract) | 1989 | PODS | 0.00013285448 |
| 4,855 | The Well-Founded Semantics of Aggregation (Extended Abstract) | 1992 | PODS | 5.8740691e-05 |
| 5,102 | On the Expressive Power of Logic Programming Languages with Sets | 1988 | PODS | 5.6992154e-05 |
| 11,762 | Stable Model Semantics for Tuple-Generating Dependencies Revisited | 2017 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 843 | Every Logic Program Has a Natural Stratification And an Iterated Least Fixed Point Model | 1989 | PODS | 0.00016005595 |
| 4,757 | Stable Models and Non-Determinism in Logic Programs with Negation | 1990 | PODS | 5.9434944e-05 |
| 7,977 | The Expressive Powers of the Logic Programming Semantics | 1990 | PODS | 4.613363e-05 |
| 1,166 | Unfounded Sets and Well-Founded Semantics for General Logic Programs | 1988 | PODS | 0.00013554968 |
| 8,392 | Three-Valued Formalization of Logic Programming: Is It Needed? | 1990 | PODS | 4.5283415e-05 |