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Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a widely studied framework for coordinating interactions in cooperative multi-agent systems. In classical DCOPs, variables owned by agents are assumed to be discrete. However, in many…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Moumita Choudhury , Amit Sarker , Md. Mosaddek Khan , William Yeoh

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important framework for modeling coordinated decision-making problems in multi-agent systems with a set of discrete variables. Later works have extended DCOPs to model problems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Moumita Choudhury , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

Weighted Logic is a powerful tool for the specification of calculations over semirings that depend on qualitative information. Using a novel combination of Weighted Logic and Here-and-There (HT) Logic, in which this dependence is based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Thomas Eiter , Rafael Kiesel

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

In Answer Set Programming (ASP), the user can define declaratively a problem and solve it with efficient solvers; practical applications of ASP are countless and several constraint problems have been successfully solved with ASP. On the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Paola Cappanera , Marco Gavanelli , Maddalena Nonato , Marco Roma

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a successful method for solving a range of real-world applications. Despite the availability of fast ASP solvers, computing answer sets demands a very large computational power, since the problem tackled is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary

The field of Distributed Constraint Optimization has gained momentum in recent years, thanks to its ability to address various applications related to multi-agent cooperation. Nevertheless, solving Distributed Constraint Optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Ferdinando Fioretto , Agostino Dovier , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Roie Zivan

ACLP is a system which combines abductive reasoning and constraint solving by integrating the frameworks of Abductive Logic Programming (ALP) and Constraint Logic Programming (CLP). It forms a general high-level knowledge representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Antonis Kakas

Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) problems are a popular way of formulating and solving agent-coordination problems. A DCOP problem is a problem where several agents coordinate their values such that the sum of the resulting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 William Yeoh , Ariel Felner , Sven Koenig

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an increasingly popular framework for declarative programming that admits the description of problems by means of rules and constraints that form a disjunctive logic program. In particular, many AI problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Johannes Klaus Fichte , Stefan Szeider

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a widely studied constraint handling framework. The objective of a DCOP algorithm is to optimize a global objective function that can be described as the aggregation of a number of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Moumita Choudhury , Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan

Dynamic constrained optimization problems (DCOPs) have gained researchers attention in recent years because a vast majority of real world problems change over time. There are studies about the effect of constrained handling techniques in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Maria-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin , Maryam Hasani-Shoreh , Wilson Blaikie , Frank Neumann , Efren Mezura-Montes

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important subclass of combinatorial optimization problems, where information and controls are distributed among multiple autonomous agents. Previously, Machine Learning (ML) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yanchen Deng , Shufeng Kong , Bo An

Equipping approximate dynamic programming (ADP) with inputconstraints has a tremendous significance. This enables ADP to be applied tothe systems with actuator limitations, which is quite common for dynamicalsystems. In a conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Xuefeng Bao , Zhi-Hong Mao , Nitin Sharma

Here we identify a type of privacy concern in Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOPs) not previously addressed in literature, despite its importance and impact on the application field: the privacy of existence of secrets. Science only…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Viorel D. Silaghi , Marius C. Silaghi , René Mandiau

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) offer a powerful framework for multi-agent coordination but often rely on labor-intensive, manual problem construction. To address this, we introduce VL-DCOPs, a framework that takes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Saaduddin Mahmud , Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn , Shlomo Zilberstein

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) paradigm is a way of using logic to solve search problems. Given a search problem, to solve it one designs a theory in the logic so that models of this theory represent problem solutions. To compute a solution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deborah East , Miroslaw Truszczynski

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has demonstrated its potential as an effective tool for concisely representing and reasoning about real-world problems. In this paper, we present an application in which ASP has been successfully used in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Matteo Cardellini , Carmine Dodaro , Marco Maratea , Mauro Vallati

Answer set programming (ASP) with disjunction offers a powerful tool for declaratively representing and solving hard problems. Many NP-complete problems can be encoded in the answer set semantics of logic programs in a very concise and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Eiter , Axel Polleres