Computation of non-ground disjunctive well-founded semantics with constraint logic programming

Abstract

Impressive work has been done in the last years concerning the meaning of negation and disjunction in logic programs, but most of this research concentrated on propositional programs only. While it suffices to consider the propositional case for investigating general properties and the overall behaviour of a semantics, we feel that for real applications and for computational purposes an implementation should be able to handle first-order programs without grounding them.