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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful modeling formalism for combinatorial problems. However, writing ASP models is not trivial. We propose a novel method, called Sketched Answer Set Programming (SkASP), aiming at supporting the user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Sergey Paramonov , Christian Bessiere , Anton Dries , Luc De Raedt

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a purely declarative formalism developed in the field of logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning: computational problems are encoded by logic programs whose answer sets, corresponding to solutions, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Francesco Calimeri , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

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

Serial pattern mining consists in extracting the frequent sequential patterns from a unique sequence of itemsets. This paper explores the ability of a declarative language, such as Answer Set Programming (ASP), to solve this issue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Thomas Guyet , Yves Moinard , René Quiniou

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

A vibrant theoretical research area are efficient exact parameterized algorithms. Very recent solving competitions such as the PACE challenge show that there is also increasing practical interest in the parameterized algorithms community.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

This article presents the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to mine sequential patterns. ASP is a high-level declarative logic programming paradigm for high level encoding combinatorial and optimization problem solving as well as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Thomas Guyet , Yves Moinard , René Quiniou , Torsten Schaub

Answer Set Planning refers to the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to compute plans, i.e., solutions to planning problems, that transform a given state of the world to another state. The development of efficient and scalable answer set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli , Marcello Balduccini , Torsten Schaub

In this work, we propose Answer-Set Programming (ASP) as a tool for rapid prototyping of dynamic programming algorithms based on tree decompositions. In fact, many such algorithms have been designed, but only a few of them found their way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Bernhard Bliem , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative problem solving paradigm that can be used to encode a combinatorial problem as a logic program whose stable models correspond to the solutions of the considered problem. ASP has been widely…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Van-Giang Trinh , Belaid Benhamou

Assumption-based argumentation (ABA) is a central structured argumentation formalism. As shown recently, answer set programming (ASP) enables efficiently solving NP-hard reasoning tasks of ABA in practice, in particular in the commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tuomo Lehtonen , Johannes P. Wallner , Matti Järvisalo

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) 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

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

Adapting techniques from database theory in order to optimize Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems, and in particular the grounding components of ASP systems, is an important topic in ASP. In recent years, the Magic Set method has received…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Mario Alviano , Wolfgang Faber , Stefan Woltran

We develop a computational approach to Metric Answer Set Programming (ASP) to allow for expressing quantitative temporal constrains, like durations and deadlines. A central challenge is to maintain scalability when dealing with fine-grained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Arvid Becker , Pedro Cabalar , Martin Diéguez , Javier Romero , Susana Hahn , Torsten Schaub

We present a new approach to enhancing Answer Set Programming (ASP) with Constraint Processing techniques which allows for solving interesting Constraint Satisfaction Problems in ASP. We show how constraints on finite domains can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-26 Christian Drescher , Toby Walsh

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming paradigm. The intrinsic complexity of the evaluation of ASP programs makes the development of more effective and faster systems a challenging research topic. This paper reports on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Francesco Ricca

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