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In temporal extensions of Answer Set Programming (ASP) based on linear-time, the behavior of dynamic systems is captured by sequences of states. While this representation reflects their relative order, it abstracts away the specific times…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Arvid Becker , Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Torsten Schaub , Anna Schuhmann

Formalizing cooking procedures remains a challenging task due to their inherent complexity and ambiguity. We introduce an extensible domain-specific language for representing recipes as directed action graphs, capturing processes,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Aarush Kumbhakern , Saransh Kumar Gupta , Lipika Dey , Partha Pratim Das

In this paper we introduce a Conditional Answer Set Programming framework (Conditional ASP) for the definition of conditional extensions of Answer Set Programming (ASP). The approach builds on a conditional logic with typicality, and on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mario Alviano , Laura Giordano , Daniele Theseider Dupré

Answer Set Programming (ASP), a well-known declarative logic programming paradigm, has recently found practical application in Process Mining. In particular, ASP has been used to model tasks involving declarative specifications of business…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Francesco Chiariello , Valeria Fionda , Antonio Ielo , Francesco Ricca

The applicability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in temporal reasoning tasks over data that is not present during training is still a field that remains to be explored. In this paper we work on this topic, focusing on structured and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Alfredo Garrachón Ruiz , Tomás de la Rosa , Daniel Borrajo

Temporal Equilibrium Logic (TEL) is a promising framework that extends the knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities of Answer Set Programming with temporal operators in the style of LTL. To our knowledge it is the first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Laura Bozzelli , David Pearce

We explore different ways of implementing temporal constraints expressed in an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with language constructs from dynamic logic. Foremost, we investigate how automata can be used for enforcing such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Susana Hahn , Torsten Schaub

This paper presents LEXR, a framework for explaining the decision making of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a formal description language called Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). LTL is the de facto standard for the specification of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Daniel Neider

Temporal logics are widely used by the Formal Methods and AI communities. Linear Temporal Logic is a popular temporal logic and is valued for its ease of use as well as its balance between expressiveness and complexity. LTL is equivalent in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Kevin W. Smith , Moshe Y. Vardi

Standpoint linear temporal logic SLTL is a recent formalism able to model possibly conflicting commitments made by distinct agents, taking into account aspects of temporal reasoning. In this paper, we analyse the computational properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Stéphane Demri , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga

Autonomous agents acting in realistic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) should be able to adapt during their execution. Standard strategic logics, such as Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), model agents' state- or history-dependent behaviour.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rustam Galimullin , Hermine Grosinger , Munyque Mittelmann

Temporal reasoning with conditionals is more complex than both classical temporal reasoning and reasoning with timeless conditionals, and can lead to some rather counter-intuitive conclusions. For instance, Aristotle's famous "Sea Battle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Fengkui Ju , Gianluca Grilletti , Valentin Goranko

In this paper we use attribute grammars as a formal approach for model checkers development. Our aim is to design an ATL (Alternating-Time Temporal Logic) model checker from a context-free grammar which generates the language of the ATL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Florin Stoica , Laura Florentina Stoica

We study the problem of policy optimization (PO) with linear temporal logic (LTL) constraints. The language of LTL allows flexible description of tasks that may be unnatural to encode as a scalar cost function. We consider LTL-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Cameron Voloshin , Hoang M. Le , Swarat Chaudhuri , Yisong Yue

This paper presents an ongoing work that is part of a more wide-ranging project whose final scope is to define a method to validate LTL formulas w.r.t. a program written in the timed concurrent constraint language tccp, which is a logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Marco Comini , Laura Titolo , Alicia Villanueva

Alternating-time temporal logics (ATL/ATL*) represent a family of modal logics for reasoning about agents' strategic abilities in multiagent systems (MAS). The interpretations of ATL/ATL* over the semantic model Concurrent Game Structures…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yedi Zhang , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Action description languages, such as A and B, are expressive instruments introduced for formalizing planning domains and planning problem instances. The paper starts by proposing a methodology to encode an action language (with conditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-16 Agostino Dovier , Andrea Formisano , Enrico Pontelli

We present ASP Modulo `Space-Time', a declarative representational and computational framework to perform commonsense reasoning about regions with both spatial and temporal components. Supported are capabilities for mixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Carl Schultz , Mehul Bhatt , Jakob Suchan , Przemysław Wałęga

We examine the practicality for a user of using Answer Set Programming (ASP) for representing logical formalisms. We choose as an example a formalism aiming at capturing causal explanations from causal information. We provide an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-06 Yves Moinard

Temporal logic is an important tool for specifying complex behaviors of systems. It can be used to define properties for verification and monitoring, as well as goals for synthesis tools, allowing users to specify rich missions and tasks.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Gustavo A. Cardona , Kevin Leahy , Makai Mann , Cristian-Ioan Vasile