Title
Translating propositional extended conjunctions of Horn clauses into Boolean circuits
Abstract
Horn^@? is a logic programming language which extends usual Horn clauses by adding intuitionistic implication in goals and clause bodies. This extension can be seen as a way of structuring programs in logic programming. We are interested in finding correct and efficient translations from Horn^@? programs into some representation type that, preserving the signature, allows us suitable implementations of these kinds of programs. In this paper we restrict to the propositional setting of Horn^@? and we study correct translations into Boolean circuits, i.e. graphs; into Boolean formulas, i.e. trees; and into conjunctions of propositional Horn clauses. Different results for the efficiencies of the transformations are obtained in the three cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.tcs.2010.01.013
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
clause body,Boolean formula,propositional extended conjunction,logic programming language,Boolean circuits,Boolean circuit,Horn clauses,correct translation,Horn ⊃ clauses,logic programming,Boolean formulas,propositional Horn clause,efficient translation,different result,usual Horn clause
Journal
411
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
16-18
Theoretical Computer Science
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jose Gaintzarain161.83
Montserrat Hermo25510.77
Paqui Lucio310219.66
Marisa Navarro415828.20