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Relative expressiveness of defeasible logics II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2013

MICHAEL J. MAHER
MICHAEL J. MAHER*
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia (e-mail: m.maher@adfa.edu.au)
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Abstract

Maher (2012) introduced an approach for relative expressiveness of defeasible logics, and two notions of relative expressiveness were investigated. Using the first of these definitions of relative expressiveness, we show that all the defeasible logics in the DL framework are equally expressive under this formulation of relative expressiveness. The second formulation of relative expressiveness is stronger than the first. However, we show that logics incorporating individual defeat are equally expressive as the corresponding logics with team defeat. Thus the only differences in expressiveness of logics in DL arise from differences in how ambiguity is handled. This completes the study of relative expressiveness in DL begun in Maher (2012).

Keywords

defeasible logicnon-monotonic reasoningrelative expressiveness
Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 13 , Special Issue 4-5: 29th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2013 , pp. 579 - 592
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 [MICHAEL J. MAHER] 

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