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In recent years answer set programming has been extended to deal with multi-valued predicates. The resulting formalisms allows for the modeling of continuous problems as elegantly as ASP allows for the modeling of discrete problems, by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-04-28 Jeroen Janssen , Steven Schockaert , Dirk Vermeir , Martine De Cock

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) provides a powerful declarative paradigm for knowledge representation and reasoning. Recently, counting answer sets has emerged as an important computational problem with applications in probabilistic reasoning,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mohimenul Kabir , Supratik Chakraborty , Kuldeep S Meel

Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (ADFs) are argumentation frameworks where each node is associated with an acceptance condition. This allows us to model different types of dependencies as supports and attacks. Previous studies provided a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-24 João Alcântara , Samy Sá , Juan Acosta-Guadarrama

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a prominent problem-modeling and solving framework, whose solutions are called answer sets. Epistemic logic programs (ELP) extend ASP to reason about all or some answer sets. Solutions to an ELP can be seen…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thomas Eiter , Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Stefan Woltran

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

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

Answer Set Programming (ASP), a well-known declarative logic programming paradigm, has recently found practical application in Process Mining. In particular, ASP has been used to model tasks involving declarative specifications of business…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Francesco Chiariello , Valeria Fionda , Antonio Ielo , Francesco Ricca

The stable model semantics had been recently generalized to non-Herbrand structures by several works, which provides a unified framework and solid logical foundations for answer set programming. This paper focuses on the expressiveness of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Heng Zhang , Yan Zhang

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful tool for solving real-world problems. However, many problems involve numeric values and complex constraints beyond the capabilities of standard ASP solvers. Hybrid solvers like CLINGCON and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nicolas Rühling

A fundamental question in systems biology is the construction and training to data of mathematical models. Logic formalisms have become very popular to model signaling networks because their simplicity allows us to model large systems…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-12-27 Santiago Videla , Carito Guziolowski , Federica Eduati , Sven Thiele , Niels Grabe , Julio Saez-Rodriguez , Anne Siegel

Answer set programming (ASP) is a logic programming paradigm that can be used to solve complex combinatorial search problems. Aggregates are an ASP construct that plays an important role in many applications. Defining a satisfactory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Paolo Ferraris

We introduce an implementation of an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with language constructs from dynamic (and temporal) logic that provides an expressive computational framework for modeling dynamic applications. Starting from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Torsten Schaub , François Laferrière

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

We propose Answer Set Programming (ASP) as an approach for modeling and solving problems from the area of Declarative Process Mining (DPM). We consider here three classical problems, namely, Log Generation, Conformance Checking, and Query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Francesco Chiariello , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Fabio Patrizi

Consistent query answering over a database that violates primary key constraints is a classical hard problem in database research that has been traditionally dealt with logic programming. However, the applicability of existing logic-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Marco Manna , Francesco Ricca , Giorgio Terracina

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

Querying over disjunctive ASP with functions is a highly undecidable task in general. In this paper we focus on disjunctive logic programs with stratified negation and functions under the stable model semantics (ASP^{fs}). We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-26 Mario Alviano , Wolfgang Faber , Nicola Leone

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular declarative reasoning and problem solving approach in symbolic AI. Its rule-based formalism makes it inherently attractive for explainable and interpretive reasoning, which is gaining importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Zeynep G. Saribatur

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a generic problem modeling and solving framework with a strong focus on knowledge representation and a rapid growth of industrial applications. So far, the study of complexity resulted in characterizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Markus Hecher , Rafael Kiesel