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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 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

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 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

This note presents a historical survey of informal semantics that are associated with logic programming under answer set semantics. We review these in uniform terms and align them with two paradigms: Answer Set Programming and ASP-Prolog --…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yuliya Lierler

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 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

Answer set programming (ASP) and planning are two widely used paradigms for solving logic programs with declarative programming. In both cases, the quality of the input programs has a major influence on the quality and performance of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Patrick Lühne

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

The explication and the generation of explanations are prominent topics in artificial intelligence and data science, in order to make methods and systems more transparent and understandable for humans. This paper investigates the problem of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Martin Atzmueller , Cicek Güven , Dietmar Seipel

Decision tree models, including random forests and gradient-boosted decision trees, are widely used in machine learning due to their high predictive performance. However, their complex structures often make them difficult to interpret,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Akihiro Takemura , Masayuki Otani , Katsumi Inoue

We take up an idea from the folklore of Answer Set Programming, namely that choices, integrity constraints along with a restricted rule format is sufficient for Answer Set Programming. We elaborate upon the foundations of this idea in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Jorge Fandinno , Seemran Mishra , Javier Romero , Torsten Schaub

Domain-specific heuristics are a crucial technique for the efficient solving of problems that are large or computationally hard. Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems support declarative specifications of domain-specific heuristics to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Richard Comploi-Taupe

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

Large Language Models possess skills such as answering questions, writing essays or solving programming exercises. Since these models are easily accessible, researchers have investigated their capabilities and risks for programming…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Lianne Roest , Hieke Keuning , Johan Jeuring

This technical report describes the usage, syntax, semantics and core algorithms of the probabilistic inductive logic programming framework PrASP. PrASP is a research software which integrates non-monotonic reasoning based on Answer Set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Matthias Nickles

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

Recent studies have integrated large language models (LLMs) into diverse educational contexts, including providing adaptive programming hints, a type of feedback focuses on helping students move forward during problem-solving. However, most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ruiwei Xiao , Xinying Hou , John Stamper

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

We present some applications of intermediate logics in the field of Answer Set Programming (ASP). A brief, but comprehensive introduction to the answer set semantics, intuitionistic and other intermediate logics is given. Some equivalence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mauricio Osorio , Juan Antonio Navarro , Jose Arrazola