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Answer set programming (ASP) aims to realize the AI vision: The user specifies the problem, and the computer solves it. Indeed, ASP has made this vision true in many application domains. However, will current ASP solving techniques scale up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Veronika Semmelrock , Gerhard Friedrich

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known problem-solving formalism in computational logic. Nowadays, ASP is used in many real world scenarios thanks to ASP solvers. Standard evaluation of ASP programs suffers from an intrinsic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Giuseppe Mazzotta

Analysis based reconstruction has recently been introduced as an alternative to the well-known synthesis sparsity model used in a variety of signal processing areas. In this paper we convert the analysis exact-sparse reconstruction problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nicolae Cleju , Maria G. Jafari , Mark D. Plumbley

We present DeepSAT, a novel end-to-end learning framework for the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. Unlike existing solutions trained on random SAT instances with relatively weak supervision, we propose applying the knowledge of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Min Li , Zhengyuan Shi , Qiuxia Lai , Sadaf Khan , Shaowei Cai , Qiang Xu

The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) generally lacks a simple and intuitive introduction in the literature. This gap is filled by defining SSB in a universal context beyond its usual applications in physics and by discussing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Andreas Aste

In this paper we introduce a novel approach for an important problem of break detection. Specifically, we are interested in detection of an abrupt change in the covariance structure of a high-dimensional random process -- a problem, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Valeriy Avanesov , Nazar Buzun

We describe the new version of the PDDL-to-ASP translator plasp. First, it widens the range of accepted PDDL features. Second, it contains novel planning encodings, some inspired by SAT planning and others exploiting ASP features such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yannis Dimopoulos , Martin Gebser , Patrick Lühne , Javier Romero , Torsten Schaub

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a key concept in physics that for decades has played a crucial role in the description of many physical phenomena in a large number of different areas, like particle physics, cosmology, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Smits , H. T. C. Stoof , P. van der Straten

Logic locking is a hardware security technique to intellectual property (IP) against security threats in the IC supply chain, especially untrusted fabs. Such techniques incorporate additional locking circuitry within an IC that induces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuntao Liu , Michael Zuzak , Yang Xie , Abhishek Chakraborty , Ankur Srivastava

In programming education, it makes a difference whether you are dealing with beginners or advanced students. As our future students will become even more tech-savvy, it is necessary to assess programming skills appropriately and quickly to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Max Kesselbacher , Andreas Bollin

A provably stable summation-by-parts simultaneous approximation term (SBP-SAT) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) subgridding method without region split is proposed. By designing projection SBP operators tailored for embedded topological…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuhui Wang , Langran Deng , Weibo Wu , Hanhong Liu , Xinyue Zhang , Xingqi Zhang , Jian Wang , Wei-Jie Wang , Zhizhang Chen , Shunchuan Yang

MEASP is a multi-engine solver for ground ASP programs. It exploits algorithm selection techniques based on classification to select one among a set of out-of-the-box heterogeneous ASP solvers used as black-box engines. In this paper we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Marco Maratea , Luca Pulina , Francesco Ricca

We show that metamaterials can be used as a testing ground to investigate spontaneous symmetry breaking associated with non-Hermitian quantum systems. By exploring the interplay between near-field dipolar coupling and material absorption or…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ming Kang , Fu Liu , Jensen Li

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

Disjunctive Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm whose main decision problems are located on the second level of the polynomial hierarchy. Identifying tractable fragments and developing efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Bernhard Bliem , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Woltran

A brief introduction to the topic of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in conservative and dissipative nonlinear systems with an underlying double-well-potential structure is given. The reason is a discussion of a recent observation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-30 Boris A. Malomed

A wide range of symbolic analysis and optimization problems can be formalized using polyhedra. Sub-classes of polyhedra, also known as sub-polyhedral domains, are sought for their lower space and time complexity. We introduce the Strided…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Arjun Pitchanathan , Albert Cohen , Oleksandr Zinenko , Tobias Grosser

The Sum of Squares (\sos{}) hierarchy gives an automatized technique to create a family of increasingly tight convex relaxations for binary programs. There are several problems for which a constant number of rounds of this hierarchy give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Victor Verdugo , José Verschae , Andreas Wiese

Satisfiability of boolean formulae (SAT) has been a topic of research in logic and computer science for a long time. In this paper we are interested in understanding the structure of satisfiable and unsatisfiable sentences. In previous work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Vaibhav Karve , Anil N. Hirani

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