The Least Fixpoint Transformation for Disjunctive Logic Programs

The paradigm of disjunctive logic programming (DLP) enhances greatly the expressive power of normal logic programming (NLP) and many (declarative) semantics have beeu defined for DLP to cope with various problems of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. However, the expressive ability of the semantics and the soundness of program transformations for DLP have been rarely explored. This paper defines an immediate consequence operator TGP for each disjunctive program and shows that TGP has the…