The language of nonmonotonic causal theories, defined by Norman McCain and Hudson Turner, is an important formalism for representing properties of actions. For causal theories of a special kind, called definite, a simple translation into the language of logic programs under the answer set semantics is available. In this paper we define a similar translation for causal theories of a more general form, called almost definite. Such theories can be used, for instance, to characterize the transitive closure of a binary relation. The new translation leads to an implementation of a subclass of almost definite causal theories that employs the answer set solver smodels as the search engine.

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In Proc. LPNMR-7, pp. 74--86 2004.

@inproceedings{Dogandag:LPNMR2004, title={Almost Definite Causal Theories}, author={Semra Dogandag and Paolo Ferraris and Vladimir Lifschitz}, booktitle={Proc. LPNMR-7}, pages={74--86}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?Dogandag:LPNMR2004", year={2004} }