KR2026Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and ReasoningProceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Lisbon, Portugal. July 20-23, 2026.

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ISBN: 978-1-956792-18-8

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A Normal Form for Rules Containing Arithmetic Operations

  1. Jorge Fandinno(University of Nebraska Omaha)
  2. Yuliya Lierler(University of Nebraska Omaha)
  3. Vladimir Lifschitz(University of Texas at Austin)

Keywords

  1. null-Answer Set Programming
  2. null-Formal Verification
  3. null-Theory

Abstract

This paper describes the process of translating rules that may contain arithmetic operations into the language of first-order logic. It identifies a normal form for which this transformation can be performed in a particularly simple and natural way. Other rules can be converted to this normal form by steps that preserve their meaning under the stable model semantics.