Stable Generated Models of Generalized Constraint Logic Programs

Sibylle Schwarz

In Proc. of the International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2001) , Report No. 2017, University of Kiel

Abstract

We present a declarative semantics of generalized constraint logic programs based on stable generated models. Stable generated models were introduced by Herre and Wagner for generalized programs containing quantifier free formulas in body and head of their rules. This definition is quite general and can be applied naturally to other classes of logic programs. A generalized constraint logic program contains additional constraints in the bodies of its rules. It combines the expressive power of constraint logic programs and generalized logic programs. We define stable generated models of generalized constraint logic programs and describe some properties. This provides a declarative semantics of this program class that extends naturally the least constraint-model semantics for definite programs with constraints defined by Jaffar et al.