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A Parallel Memory-efficient Epistemic Logic Program Solver: Harder, Better, Faster

Artificial Intelligence 2016-10-14 v2

Abstract

As the practical use of answer set programming (ASP) has grown with the development of efficient solvers, we expect a growing interest in extensions of ASP as their semantics stabilize and solvers supporting them mature. Epistemic Specifications, which adds modal operators K and M to the language of ASP, is one such extension. We call a program in this language an epistemic logic program (ELP). Solvers have thus far been practical for only the simplest ELPs due to exponential growth of the search space. We describe a solver that is able to solve harder problems better (e.g., without exponentially-growing memory needs w.r.t. K and M occurrences) and faster than any other known ELP solver.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06910,
  title  = {A Parallel Memory-efficient Epistemic Logic Program Solver: Harder, Better, Faster},
  author = {Patrick Thor Kahl and Anthony P. Leclerc and Tran Cao Son},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06910},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Paper presented at the 9th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2016), New York City, USA, 16 October 2016

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