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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

The paper presents an enhancement of xASP, a system that generates explanation graphs for Answer Set Programming (ASP). Different from xASP, the new system, xASP2, supports different clingo constructs like the choice rules, the constraints,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Mario Alviano , Ly Ly Trieu , Tran Cao Son , Marcello Balduccini

Automating the translation of natural-language specifications into logic programs is a challenging task that affects neurosymbolic engineering. We present ASP-Bench, a benchmark comprising 128 natural language problem instances, 64 base…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Stefan Szeider

Distilling long-form reasoning from teacher models into smaller students requires selecting which candidate solutions to train on. Recent work argues that one should select responses the student model assigns highest probability, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hoang Anh Just , Myeongseob Ko , Ruoxi Jia

Probabilistic Answer Set Programming under the credal semantics (PASP) extends Answer Set Programming with probabilistic facts that represent uncertain information. The probabilistic facts are discrete with Bernoulli distributions. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Damiano Azzolini , Fabrizio Riguzzi

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

In recent years, non-monotonic Inductive Logic Programming has received growing interest. Specifically, several new learning frameworks and algorithms have been introduced for learning under the answer set semantics, allowing the learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Mark Law , Alessandra Russo , Krysia Broda

In Computer Science (CS) education, understanding factors contributing to students' programming difficulties is crucial for effective learning support. By identifying specific issues students face, educators can provide targeted assistance…

Assumption-based Argumentation (ABA) is advocated as a unifying formalism for various forms of non-monotonic reasoning, including logic programming. It allows capturing defeasible knowledge, subject to argumentative debate. While, in much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Emanuele De Angelis , Maurizio Proietti , Francesca Toni

We present NeurASP, a simple extension of answer set programs by embracing neural networks. By treating the neural network output as the probability distribution over atomic facts in answer set programs, NeurASP provides a simple and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhun Yang , Adam Ishay , Joohyung Lee

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an expressive knowledge representation and reasoning framework. Due to its rather simple syntax paired with high-performance solvers, ASP is interesting for industrial applications. However, to err is human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Philip Gasteiger , Carmine Dodaro , Benjamin Musitsch , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca , Konstantin Schekotihin

We propose an approach to model articles of the Italian Criminal Code (ICC), using Answer Set Programming (ASP), and to semi-automatically learn legal rules from examples based on prior judicial decisions. The developed tool is intended to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Agostino Dovier , Talissa Dreossi , Andrea Formisano , Benedetta Strizzolo

We present dPASP, a novel declarative probabilistic logic programming framework for differentiable neuro-symbolic reasoning. The framework allows for the specification of discrete probabilistic models with neural predicates, logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Renato Lui Geh , Jonas Gonçalves , Igor Cataneo Silveira , Denis Deratani Mauá , Fabio Gagliardi Cozman

We present a system capable of automatically solving combinatorial logic puzzles given in (simplified) English. It involves translating the English descriptions of the puzzles into answer set programming(ASP) and using ASP solvers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Chitta Baral , Juraj Dzifcak

Answer Set Programming (ASP) solvers are highly-tuned and complex procedures that implicitly solve the consistency problem, i.e., deciding whether a logic program admits an answer set. Verifying whether a claimed answer set is formally a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Tobias Philipp , Jakob Rath

Recent progress in logic programming (e.g., the development of the Answer Set Programming paradigm) has made it possible to teach it to general undergraduate and even high school students. Given the limited exposure of these students to…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Elias Marcopoulos , Christian Reotutar , Yuanlin Zhang

Achieving full automation in self-driving vehicles remains a challenge, especially in dynamic urban environments where navigation requires real-time adaptability. Existing systems struggle to handle navigation plans when faced with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Augusto Luis Ballardini , Miguel Ángel Sotelo

Generating hints for incorrect code is a cognitively demanding task that fosters learning and metacognitive development. This study investigates three designs for personalized, scalable, and reflective hint-writing activities within a data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Anjali Singh , Christopher Brooks , Warren Li , Juho Kim , Xu Wang

Learning basic programming with Scratch can be hard for novices and tutors alike: Students may not know how to advance when solving a task, teachers may face classrooms with many raised hands at a time, and the problem is exacerbated when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Florian Obermüller , Ute Heuer , Gordon Fraser

Robots assisting humans in complex domains have to represent knowledge and reason at both the sensorimotor level and the social level. The architecture described in this paper couples the non-monotonic logical reasoning capabilities of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Zenon Colaco , Mohan Sridharan