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In answer set programming (ASP), answer sets capture solutions to search problems of interest and thus the efficient computation of answer sets is of utmost importance. One viable implementation strategy is provided by translation-based ASP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tomi Janhunen

We present an enhancement of exp(ASP), a system that generates explanation graphs for a literal l - an atom a or its default negation ~a - given an answer set A of a normal logic program P, which explain why l is true (or false) given A and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ly Ly Trieu , Tran Cao Son , Marcello Balduccini

Answer Set Programming (ASP) with stable model semantics has proven highly effective for knowledge representation and reasoning. However, the minimality requirement of stable models can be restrictive for applications requiring exploration…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Fang Li , Gopal Gupta

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a problem modeling and solving framework for several problems in KR with growing industrial applications. Also for studies of computational complexity and deeper insights into the hardness and its sources,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Markus Hecher

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming paradigm with various applications. Programs can easily have many answer sets that cannot be enumerated in practice, but counting still allows quantifying solution spaces. If…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Johannes K. Fichte , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Markus Hecher , Dominik Rusovac

In this paper, we examine the use of Conformal Language Modelling (CLM) alongside Answer Set Programming (ASP) to enhance the performance of standard open-weight LLMs on complex multi-step reasoning tasks. Using the StepGame dataset, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Navdeep Kaur , Lachlan McPheat , Alessandra Russo , Anthony G Cohn , Pranava Madhyastha

We introduce an approach to detecting inconsistencies in large biological networks by using Answer Set Programming (ASP). To this end, we build upon a recently proposed notion of consistency between biochemical/genetic reactions and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Martin Gebser , Torsten Schaub , Sven Thiele , Philippe Veber

Modern scientific software stacks have become extremely complex, using many programming models and libraries to exploit a growing variety of GPUs and accelerators. Package managers can mitigate this complexity using dependency solvers, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Todd Gamblin , Massimiliano Culpo , Gregory Becker , Sergei Shudler

Probabilistic programming is a powerful abstraction for statistical machine learning. Applying static analysis methods to probabilistic programs could serve to optimize the learning process, automatically verify properties of models, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ryan Bernstein

In this paper, we study the problem of formal verification for Answer Set Programming (ASP), namely, obtaining a formal proof showing that the answer sets of a given (non-ground) logic program P correctly correspond to the solutions to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Yuliya Lierler

Most controlled natural languages (CNLs) are processed with the help of a pipeline architecture that relies on different software components. We investigate in this paper in an experimental way how well answer set programming (ASP) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Rolf Schwitter

Non-monotonic logic programming is the basis for a declarative problem solving paradigm known as answer set programming (ASP). Departing from the seminal definition by Gelfond and Lifschitz in 1988 for simple normal logic programs, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yi-Dong Shen , Thomas Eiter

We explore the use of answer set programming (ASP) and its extension with quantifiers, ASP(Q), for inconsistency-tolerant querying of prioritized data, where a priority relation between conflicting facts is exploited to define three notions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux , Robin Jean , Giuseppe Mazzotta

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

Epistemic Logic Programs (ELPs) extend Answer Set Programming (ASP) with epistemic negation and have received renewed interest in recent years. This led to the development of new research and efficient solving systems for ELPs. In practice,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Wolfgang Faber , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

The Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) is a well-known matching problem first introduced and solved by Gale and Shapley (1962). Several variants and extensions to this problem have since been investigated to cover a wider set of applications.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Sofie De Clercq , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Ann Nowé

We present a general approach to planning with incomplete information in Answer Set Programming (ASP). More precisely, we consider the problems of conformant and conditional planning with sensing actions and assumptions. We represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jorge Fandinno , François Laferrière , Javier Romero , Torsten Schaub , Tran Cao Son

Often in Software Engineering, a modeling formalism has to support scenarios of inconsistency in which several requirements either reinforce or contradict each other. Paraconsistent transition systems are proposed in this paper as one such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ana Cruz , Alexandre Madeira , LuÂ-Ã-s Soares Barbosa

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

We propose a stable model semantics for higher-order logic programs. Our semantics is developed using Approximation Fixpoint Theory (AFT), a powerful formalism that has successfully been used to give meaning to diverse non-monotonic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bart Bogaerts , Angelos Charalambidis , Giannos Chatziagapis , Babis Kostopoulos , Samuele Pollaci , Panos Rondogiannis