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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a successful method for solving a range of real-world applications. Despite the availability of fast ASP solvers, computing answer sets demands a very large computational power, since the problem tackled is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Machine Learning are two important fields in AI. Nonmonotonic logic programming (NMLP) and Answer Set Programming (ASP) provide formal languages for representing and reasoning with commonsense…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Katsumi Inoue , Chiaki Sakama

This technical report describes the usage, syntax, semantics and core algorithms of the probabilistic inductive logic programming framework PrASP. PrASP is a research software which integrates non-monotonic reasoning based on Answer Set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Matthias Nickles

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming language used for modeling and solving complex combinatorial problems. It has been successfully applied to a number of different realworld problems. However, learning its usage can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rafael Martins , Matthias Knorr , Ricardo Gonçalves

An important issue towards a broader acceptance of answer-set programming (ASP) is the deployment of tools which support the programmer during the coding phase. In particular, methods for debugging an answer-set program are recognised as a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-29 Johannes Oetsch , Jörg Pührer , Hans Tompits

This study explores the application of Answer Set Programming (ASP) for detecting anomalies in system logs, addressing the challenges posed by evolving cyber threats. We propose a novel framework that leverages ASP's declarative nature and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Fang Li , Fei Zuo , Gopal Gupta

We propose a method for generating explainable rule sets from tree-ensemble learners using Answer Set Programming (ASP). To this end, we adopt a decompositional approach where the split structures of the base decision trees are exploited in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue

We present an explanation system for applications that leverage Answer Set Programming (ASP). Given a program P, an answer set A of P, and an atom a in the program P, our system generates all explanation graphs of a which help explain why a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ly Ly Trieu , Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli , Marcello Balduccini

We present an implementation of an answer-set programming paradigm, called aspps (short for answer-set programming with propositional schemata). The system aspps is designed to process PS+ theories. It consists of two basic modules. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deborah East. Miroslaw Truszczynski

Possibilistic answer set programming (PASP) extends answer set programming (ASP) by attaching to each rule a degree of certainty. While such an extension is important from an application point of view, existing semantics are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Kim Bauters , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Dirk Vermeir

Nested answer set programming (NASP; Lifschitz et al., 1999) generalizes answer set programming (ASP) by admitting nested expressions in rule bodies and heads, and thus, NASP aims at exploiting program succinctness. Yet, although NASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Gonzalo E. Imaz

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is one of the major declarative programming paradigms in the area of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Despite that ASP features a simple syntax and an intuitive semantics, errors are common during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Carmine Dodaro , Philip Gasteiger , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca , Konstantin Schekotihin

While the solution counting problem for propositional satisfiability (#SAT) has received renewed attention in recent years, this research trend has not affected other AI solving paradigms like answer set programming (ASP). Although ASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Johannes Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

Qualitative reasoning involves expressing and deriving knowledge based on qualitative terms such as natural language expressions, rather than strict mathematical quantities. Well over 40 qualitative calculi have been proposed so far, mostly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 George Baryannis , Ilias Tachmazidis , Sotiris Batsakis , Grigoris Antoniou , Mario Alviano , Emmanuel Papadakis

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for logic programming. Problem solving in ASP requires to write an ASP program whose answers sets correspond to solutions. Albeit the non-existence of answer sets for some ASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Giovanni Amendola , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca

We present some applications of intermediate logics in the field of Answer Set Programming (ASP). A brief, but comprehensive introduction to the answer set semantics, intuitionistic and other intermediate logics is given. Some equivalence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mauricio Osorio , Juan Antonio Navarro , Jose Arrazola

Within the area of computational models of argumentation, the instantiation-based approach is gaining more and more attention, not at least because meaningful input for Dung's abstract frameworks is provided in that way. In a nutshell, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Günther Charwat , Johannes Peter Wallner , Stefan Woltran

Weighted Logic is a powerful tool for the specification of calculations over semirings that depend on qualitative information. Using a novel combination of Weighted Logic and Here-and-There (HT) Logic, in which this dependence is based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Thomas Eiter , Rafael Kiesel

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful modeling formalism for combinatorial problems. However, writing ASP models is not trivial. We propose a novel method, called Sketched Answer Set Programming (SkASP), aiming at supporting the user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Sergey Paramonov , Christian Bessiere , Anton Dries , Luc De Raedt

This article presents the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to mine sequential patterns. ASP is a high-level declarative logic programming paradigm for high level encoding combinatorial and optimization problem solving as well as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Thomas Guyet , Yves Moinard , René Quiniou , Torsten Schaub