In this paper, we present an approach to forgetting in disjunctive logic programs, where forgetting an atom from a program amounts to a reduction in the signature of that program. Notably, the approach is syntax-independent, so that if two programs are strongly equivalent, then the result of forgetting a given atom in each program is also strongly equivalent. Our central definition of forgetting is abstract: forgetting an atom from program P is characterised by the set of those SE consequences of P that do not mention the atom to be forgotten. We provide an equivalent, syntactic, characterization in which forgetting an atom p is given by those rules in the program that do not mention p, together with rules obtained by a single inference step from those rules that do mention p. Forgetting is shown to have appropriate properties; in particular, answer sets are preserved in forgetting an atom. As well, forgetting an atom via the syntactic characterization results in a modest (at worst quadratic) blowup in the program size. Finally, we provide a prototype implementation of this approach to forgetting.
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Delgrande, J. P., & Wang, K. (2015). A syntax-independent approach to forgetting in disjunctive logic programs. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2, pp. 1482–1488). AI Access Foundation. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v29i1.9402
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