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  Defeasible logic versus logic programming without negation as failure (2000) [46 citations — 17 self]

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by G. Antoniou, M. J. Maher, D. Billington
Journal of Logic Programming
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Abstract:

Recently there has been increased interest in logic programming-based default reasoning approaches which are not using negation-as-failure in their object language. Instead, default reasoning is modelled by rules and a priority relation among them. In this paper we compare the expressive power of two approaches in this family of logics: Defeasible Logic, and sceptical LPwNF. Our results show that the former has a strictly stronger expressive power. The difference is caused by the latter logic's failure to capture the idea of teams of rules supporting a specific conclusion.

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