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Fuzzy answer set programming (FASP) combines two declarative frameworks, answer set programming and fuzzy logic, in order to model reasoning by default over imprecise information. Several connectives are available to combine different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Mario Alviano , Rafael Penaloza

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a logic-based knowledge representation framework, supporting---among other reasoning modes---the central task of query answering. In the propositional case, query answering amounts to computing cautious…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Matti Järvisalo , Marco Maratea , Alessandro Previti

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is nowadays a dominant rule-based knowledge representation tool. Though existing ASP variants enjoy efficient implementations, generating an answer set remains intractable. The goal of this research is to define…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Andrzej Szalas

Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to problem-solving and decision-making are becoming more and more complex, leading to a decrease in the understandability of solutions. The European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Jorge Fandinno , Claudia Schulz

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Fang Li

Logic programming under the answer-set semantics nowadays deals with numerous different notions of program equivalence. This is due to the fact that equivalence for substitution (known as strong equivalence) and ordinary equivalence are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-12-07 Stefan Woltran

We propose a stable model semantics for higher-order logic programs. Our semantics is developed using Approximation Fixpoint Theory (AFT), a powerful formalism that has successfully been used to give meaning to diverse non-monotonic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bart Bogaerts , Angelos Charalambidis , Giannos Chatziagapis , Babis Kostopoulos , Samuele Pollaci , Panos Rondogiannis

In this paper we explore the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to formalize, and reason about, psychological knowledge. In the field of psychology, a considerable amount of knowledge is still expressed using only natural language. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-11 Marcello Balduccini , Sara Girotto

Answer set programming (ASP) is a well-established knowledge representation formalism. Most ASP solvers are based on (extensions of) technology from Boolean satisfiability solving. While these solvers have shown to be very successful in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Wolf De Wulf , Bart Bogaerts

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

In this paper, we explore the concept of modularity in first-order answer set programming (ASP). We introduce a new formalism called parametric modular logic programs, which allows defining subprograms with parameters and intensionality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jorge Fandinno , Yuliya Lierler , Torsten Schaub

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful paradigm for non-monotonic reasoning. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in logical reasoning. Despite this potential, current evaluations of LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lin Ren , Guohui Xiao , Guilin Qi , Yishuai Geng , Haohan Xue

This paper describes an approach to the methodology of answer set programming (ASP) that can facilitate the design of encodings that are easy to understand and provably correct. Under this approach, after appending a rule or a small group…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Vladimir Lifschitz

Significant research has been conducted in recent years to extend Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) methods to induce Answer Set Programs (ASP). These methods perform an exhaustive search for the correct hypothesis by encoding an ILP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Farhad Shakerin , Gopal Gupta

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

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming paradigm with a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence. Oftentimes, when modeling an AI problem with ASP, and in particular when we are interested beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Johannes K. Fichte , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Dominik Rusovac

Answer Set Programming Modulo Theories (ASPMT) is a new framework of tight integration of answer set programming (ASP) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). Similar to the relationship between first-order logic and SMT, it is based on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Joohyung Lee , Yunsong Meng

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

The design of efficient solutions for abstract argumentation problems is a crucial step towards advanced argumentation systems. One of the most prominent approaches in the literature is to use Answer-Set Programming (ASP) for this endeavor.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Sarah A. Gaggl , Norbert Manthey , Alessandro Ronca , Johannes P. Wallner , Stefan Woltran

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