the expressive powers of the logic programming semantics (extended abstract)
We compare the expressive powers of three semantics for deductive databases and logic programming: the 3-valued program completion semantics, the well-founded semantics, and the stable semantics, We identify the expressive power of the stable semantics, and in fairly general circumstances that of the well-founded semantics. Over infinite Herbrand models, where the three semantics have equivalent expressive power, we also consider a notion of uniform translatability between the 3-valued program completion and well-founded semantics. In this sense of uniform translatability we show the well-founded semantics to be more expressive.
express power logic program semantic abstraction database completeness general model translation