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Answer set programming (ASP) is a paradigm for declarative problem solving where problems are first formalized as rule sets, i.e., answer-set programs, in a uniform way and then solved by computing answer sets for programs. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-31 Mai Nguyen , Tomi Janhunen , Ilkka Niemelä

ASPIC+ is one of the main general frameworks for rule-based argumentation for AI. Although first-order rules are commonly used in ASPIC+ examples, most existing approaches to reason over rule-based argumentation only support propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Martin Diller , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Philipp Hanisch , Giuseppina Monterosso , Fritz Rauschenbach

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

This talk describes how a combination of symbolic computation techniques with first-order theorem proving can be used for solving some challenges of automating program analysis, in particular for generating and proving properties about the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Laura Kovacs

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 well-established declarative paradigm. One of the successes of ASP is the availability of efficient systems. State-of-the-art systems are based on the ground+solve approach. In some applications this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Bernardo Cuteri , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca , Peter Schüller

Answer set programming (ASP) is a paradigm for modeling knowledge intensive domains and solving challenging reasoning problems. In ASP solving, a typical strategy is to preprocess problem instances by rewriting complex rules into simpler…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Jori Bomanson , Tomi Janhunen

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful modelling formalism that is very efficient in solving combinatorial problems. ASP solvers implement the stable model semantics that eliminates circular derivations between Boolean variables from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Rehan Abdul Aziz

We develop an inductive proof-technique to generate imperative programs for pointer data structures from behavioural specifications expressed in the Answer Set Programming (ASP) formalism. ASP is a non-monotonic logic based formalism that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Neeraj Mittal , Gopal Gupta

We present a framework for synthesising formulas in first-order logic (FOL) from examples, which unifies and advances state-of-the-art approaches for inference of transition system invariants. To do so, we study and categorise the existing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ziyi Yang , George Pîrlea , Ilya Sergey

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

Broad application of answer set programming (ASP) for declarative problem solving requires the development of tools supporting the coding process. Program debugging is one of the crucial activities within this process. Recently suggested…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known problem solving approach based on nonmonotonic logic programs and efficient solvers. To enable access to external information, HEX-programs extend programs with external atoms, which allow for a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Thomas Eiter , Michael Fink , Thomas Krennwallner , Christoph Redl

As a programming paradigm, answer set programming (ASP) brings about the usual issue of the human error. Hence, it is desirable to provide automated techniques that could help the programmer to find the error. This paper addresses the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Mikoláš Janota , Joao Marques-Silva

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a widely used declarative programming paradigm that has shown great potential in solving complex computational problems. However, the inability to natively support non-integer arithmetic has been highlighted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Francesco Pacenza , Jessica Zangari

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

We introduce a stepping methodology for answer-set programming (ASP) that allows for debugging answer-set programs and is based on the stepwise application of rules. Similar to debugging in imperative languages, where the behaviour of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Johannes Oetsch , Jörg Pührer , Hans Tompits

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 declarative logic programming formalism, which is employed nowadays in both academic and industrial real-world applications. Although some tools for supporting the development of ASP programs have been…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Onofrio Febbraro , Nicola Leone , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca