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Incorporating constraints is a major concern in probabilistic machine learning. A wide variety of problems require predictions to be integrated with reasoning about constraints, from modelling routes on maps to approving loan predictions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Ioannis Papantonis , Vaishak Belle

Answer Set Planning refers to the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to compute plans, i.e., solutions to planning problems, that transform a given state of the world to another state. The development of efficient and scalable answer set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli , Marcello Balduccini , Torsten Schaub

Probabilistic separation logic offers an approach to reasoning about imperative probabilistic programs in which a separating conjunction is used as a mechanism for expressing independence properties. Crucial to the effectiveness of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Janez Ignacij Jereb , Alex Simpson

Recently there has been an increasing interest in incorporating ``intensional'' functions in answer set programming. Intensional functions are those whose values can be described by other functions and predicates, rather than being…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michael Bartholomew , Joohyung Lee

Provenance graphs are useful and powerful tools for representing system-level activities in cybersecurity; however, existing approaches often struggle with complex queries and flexible reasoning. This paper presents a novel approach using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Fang Li , Fei Zuo , Gopal Gupta

Abstract argumentation offers an appealing way of representing and evaluating arguments and counterarguments. This approach can be enhanced by a probability assignment to each argument. There are various interpretations that can be ascribed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Anthony Hunter , Matthias Thimm

We propose a method for generating rule sets as global and local explanations for tree-ensemble learning methods using Answer Set Programming (ASP). To this end, we adopt a decompositional approach where the split structures of the base…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue

Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) is a hybrid paradigm that enriches Answer Set Programming (ASP) with numerical constraint processing, a crucial requirement for many real-world applications. However, the specification of constraints…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jorge Fandinno , Pedro Cabalar , Philipp Wanko , Torsten Schaub

To exploit the Web Ontology Language OWL as an answer set programming (ASP) language, we introduce the notion of bounded model semantics, as an intuitive and computationally advantageous alternative to its classical semantics. We show that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Sarah Alice Gaggl , Sebastian Rudolph , Lukas Schweizer

Conformal prediction is a statistical framework that generates prediction sets containing ground-truth labels with a desired coverage guarantee. The predicted probabilities produced by machine learning models are generally miscalibrated,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jianguo Huang , Huajun Xi , Linjun Zhang , Huaxiu Yao , Yue Qiu , Hongxin Wei

Answer set programming is one of the most praised frameworks for declarative programming in general and non-monotonic reasoning in particular. There has been many efforts to extend stable model semantics so that answer set programs can use…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Shahab Tasharrofi

Building biological models by inferring functional dependencies from experimental data is an im- portant issue in Molecular Biology. To relieve the biologist from this traditionally manual process, various approaches have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-29 Max Ostrowski , Torsten Schaub , Markus Durzinsky , Wolfgang Marwan , Annegret Wagler

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

The decoupling between the representation of a certain problem, i.e., its knowledge model, and the reasoning side is one of main strong points of model-based Artificial Intelligence (AI). This allows, e.g. to focus on improving the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Carmine Dodaro , Marco Maratea , Mauro Vallati

Feature model configuration can be supported on the basis of various types of reasoning approaches. Examples thereof are SAT solving, constraint solving, and answer set programming (ASP). Using these approaches requires technical expertise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Alexander Felfernig , Viet-Man Le , Sebastian Lubos

Answer-set programming (ASP) is a successful problem-solving approach in logic-based AI. In ASP, problems are represented as declarative logic programs, and solutions are identified through their answer sets. Equilibrium logic (EL) is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Ezgi Iraz Su

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has emerged as a promising paradigm in knowledge representation and automated reasoning owing to its ability to model hard combinatorial problems from diverse domains in a natural way. Building on advances in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mohimenul Kabir , Supratik Chakraborty , Kuldeep S Meel

Given an argumentation framework AF, we introduce a mapping function that constructs a disjunctive logic program P, such that the preferred extensions of AF correspond to the stable models of P, after intersecting each stable model with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Juan Carlos Nieves , Mauricio Osorio , Ulises Cortés

Recent efforts to improve the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have focused on integrating formal logic solvers within neurosymbolic frameworks. A key challenge is that formal solvers lack commonsense world knowledge,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Joseph Cotnareanu , Chiara Roverato , Han Zhou , Didier Chetelat , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

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