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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a truly-declarative programming paradigm proposed in the area of non-monotonic reasoning and logic programming, that has been recently employed in many applications. The development of efficient ASP systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Marco Maratea , Luca Pulina , Francesco Ricca

Answer set programming (ASP) is a logic programming formalism used in various areas of artificial intelligence like combinatorial problem solving and knowledge representation and reasoning. It is known that enhancing ASP with function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Lukas Gerlach , David Carral , Markus Hecher

State-of-the-art solvers for symmetry detection in combinatorial objects are becoming increasingly sophisticated software libraries. Most of the solvers were initially designed with inputs from combinatorics in mind (nauty, bliss, Traces,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Markus Anders , Pascal Schweitzer , Julian Stieß

The Satisfiability (SAT) problem is a core challenge with significant applications in software engineering, including automated testing, configuration management, and program verification. This paper presents SolSearch, a novel framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junjie Sheng , Yanqiu Lin , Jiehao Wu , Yanhong Huang , Jianqi Shi , Min Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

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

Abstraction is a well-known approach to simplify a complex problem by over-approximating it with a deliberate loss of information. It was not considered so far in Answer Set Programming (ASP), a convenient tool for problem solving. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Thomas Eiter

Privacy-enhancing blocking tools based on filter-list rules tend to break legitimate functionality. Filter-list maintainers could benefit from automated breakage detection tools that allow them to proactively fix problematic rules before…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Saiid El Hajj Chehade , Sandra Siby , Carmela Troncoso

Computing differences between tree-structured data is a critical but challenging problem in software analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel tree diffing approach called SatDiff, which reformulates the structural diffing problem into a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chuqin Geng , Haolin Ye , Yihan Zhang , Brigitte Pientka , Xujie Si

We consider semidefinite programming (SDP) approaches for solving the maximum satisfiability problem (MAX-SAT) and the weighted partial MAX-SAT. It is widely known that SDP is well-suited to approximate the (MAX-)2-SAT. Our work shows the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning. An ASP program can have no answer set due to cyclic default negation. In this case, it is not possible to draw any conclusion, even if this is not…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Giovanni Amendola , Carmine Dodaro , Wolfgang Faber , Nicola Leone , Francesco Ricca

Predicate abstraction is a key enabling technology for applying finite-state model checkers to programs written in mainstream languages. It has been used very successfully for debugging sequential system-level C code. Although model…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Alastair Donaldson , Alexander Kaiser , Daniel Kroening , Thomas Wahl

Many industrial applications require finding solutions to challenging combinatorial problems. Efficient elimination of symmetric solution candidates is one of the key enablers for high-performance solving. However, existing model-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alice Tarzariol , Martin Gebser , Mark Law , Konstantin Schekotihin

With the slowdown of improvement in conventional von Neumann systems, increasing attention is paid to novel paradigms such as Ising machines. They have very different approach to NP-complete optimization problems. Ising machines have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Anshujit Sharma , Matthew Burns , Andrew Hahn , Michael Huang

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

This paper describes SatIn, a hardware accelerator for determining boolean satisfiability (SAT) -- an important problem in many domains including verification, security analysis, and planning. SatIn is based on a distributed associative…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chenzhuo Zhu , Alexander C. Rucker , Yawen Wang , William J. Dally

This paper studies the semi-analytic solution (SAS) of a power system's differential-algebraic equation. A SAS is a closed-form function of symbolic variables including time, the initial state and the parameters on system operating…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Nan Duan , Kai Sun

We introduce SDPB: an open-source, parallelized, arbitrary-precision semidefinite program solver, designed for the conformal bootstrap. SDPB significantly outperforms less specialized solvers and should enable many new computations. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-10 David Simmons-Duffin

State-of-the-art Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers constitute a practical and competitive approach for solving various real-world problems. To encourage their widespread adoption, the relatively high barrier of entry following from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Christoph Jabs

We propose a general framework for solving inverse self-assembly problems, i.e. designing interactions between elementary units such that they assemble spontaneously into a predetermined structure. Our approach uses patchy particles as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-13 John Russo , Flavio Romano , Lukas Kroc , Francesco Sciortino , Lorenzo Rovigatti , Petr Sulc

We report results of the analysis of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in the basic (actually, simplest) model which is capable to produce the SSB phenomenology in the one-dimensional setting. It is based on the Gross-Pitaevskii -…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Elad Shamriz , Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed