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In our daily lives and industrial settings, we often encounter dynamic problems that require reasoning over time and metric constraints. These include tasks such as scheduling, routing, and production sequencing. Dynamic logics have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Susana Hahn

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a generic problem modeling and solving framework with a strong focus on knowledge representation and a rapid growth of industrial applications. So far, the study of complexity resulted in characterizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Markus Hecher , Rafael Kiesel

We introduce an implementation of an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with language constructs from dynamic (and temporal) logic that provides an expressive computational framework for modeling dynamic applications. Starting from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Torsten Schaub , François Laferrière

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an increasingly popular framework for declarative programming that admits the description of problems by means of rules and constraints that form a disjunctive logic program. In particular, many AI problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Johannes Klaus Fichte , Stefan Szeider

The interest in explainability in artificial intelligence (AI) is growing vastly due to the near ubiquitous state of AI in our lives and the increasing complexity of AI systems. Answer-set Programming (ASP) is used in many areas, among them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tobias Geibinger

Many applications require complexly structured data objects. Developing new or adapting existing algorithmic solutions for creating such objects can be a non-trivial and costly task if the considered objects are subject to different…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Johannes Oetsch , Jörg Pührer , Hans Tompits

This paper presents a novel approach to automated stripboard circuit layout design using Answer Set Programming (ASP). The work formulates the layout problem as both a synthesis and multi-objective optimization task that simultaneously…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Fang Li

Answer-set programming (ASP) paradigm is a way of using logic to solve search problems. Given a search problem, to solve it one designs a theory in the logic so that models of this theory represent problem solutions. To compute a solution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deborah East , Miroslaw Truszczynski

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a famous logic language for knowledge representation, which has been really successful in the last years, as witnessed by the great interest into the development of efficient solvers for ASP. Yet, the great…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Marco De Bortoli

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative problem solving paradigm which became widely used in AI and recognized as a powerful tool for knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), especially for its high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Francesco Calimeri , Davide Fuscà , Stefano Germano , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a problem modeling and solving framework for several problems in KR with growing industrial applications. Also for studies of computational complexity and deeper insights into the hardness and its sources,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Markus Hecher

State-of-the-art answer set programming (ASP) solvers rely on a program called a grounder to convert non-ground programs containing variables into variable-free, propositional programs. The size of this grounding depends heavily on the size…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

The identification of deterministic finite automata (DFAs) from labeled examples is a cornerstone of automata learning, yet traditional methods focus on learning monolithic DFAs, which often yield a large DFA lacking simplicity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Junjie Meng , Jie An , Yong Li , Andrea Turrini , Fanjiang Xu , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang

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

Parameterized algorithms are a way to solve hard problems more efficiently, given that a specific parameter of the input is small. In this paper, we apply this idea to the field of answer set programming (ASP). To this end, we propose two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Johannes Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

The manipulation of articulated objects is of primary importance in Robotics, and can be considered as one of the most complex manipulation tasks. Traditionally, this problem has been tackled by developing ad-hoc approaches, which lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Riccardo Bertolucci , Alessio Capitanelli , Carmine Dodaro , Nicola Leone , Marco Maratea , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Mauro Vallati

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular nonmonotonic-logic based paradigm for knowledge representation and solving combinatorial problems. Computing the answer set of an ASP program is NP-hard in general, and researchers have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Fang Li , Huaduo Wang , Gopal Gupta

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular declarative reasoning and problem solving approach in symbolic AI. Its rule-based formalism makes it inherently attractive for explainable and interpretive reasoning, which is gaining importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Zeynep G. Saribatur

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming paradigm based on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. It is a tremendously powerful tool for describing and solving combinatorial problems. Like any other language, ASP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Connar Hite , Sean Saud , Raef Taha , Nayim Rahman , Tanvir Atahary , Scott Douglass , Tarek Taha

Traditional Answer Set Programming (ASP) rests upon one-shot solving. A logic program is fed into an ASP system and its stable models are computed. The high practical relevance of dynamic applications led to the development of multi-shot…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Martin Gebser , Phillip Obermeier , Torsten Schaub