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Stochastic Constraint Programming (SCP) is an extension of Constraint Programming (CP) used for modelling and solving problems involving constraints and uncertainty. SCP inherits excellent modelling abilities and filtering algorithms from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Steven Prestwich , Roberto Rossi , Armagan Tarim

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has become a popular and quite sophisticated approach to declarative problem solving. This is arguably due to its attractive modeling-grounding-solving workflow that provides an easy approach to problem solving,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Roland Kaminski , Javier Romero , Torsten Schaub , Philipp Wanko

Preference handling and optimization are indispensable means for addressing non-trivial applications in Answer Set Programming (ASP). However, their implementation becomes difficult whenever they bring about a significant increase in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-29 Martin Gebser , Roland Kaminski , Torsten Schaub

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their potential in various natural language processing tasks, including code generation. However, while significant progress has been made in adapting LLMs to generate code for several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Erica Coppolillo , Francesco Calimeri , Giuseppe Manco , Simona Perri , Francesco Ricca

We present the solver asp-fzn for Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP), which extends ASP with linear constraints. Our approach is based on translating CASP programs into the solver-independent FlatZinc language that supports several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Tobias Kaminski , Nysret Musliu , Johannes Oetsch

Recent large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive reasoning milestones but continue to struggle with high computational costs, logical inconsistencies, and sharp performance degradation on high-complexity problems. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Adam Ishay , Joohyung Lee

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established declarative problem solving paradigm which became widely used in AI and recognized as a powerful tool for knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), especially for its high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Francesco Calimeri , Davide Fuscà , Stefano Germano , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known problem solving approach based on nonmonotonic logic programs. HEX-programs extend ASP with external atoms for accessing arbitrary external information, which can introduce values that do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Christoph Redl

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess extensive foundational knowledge and moderate reasoning abilities, making them suitable for general task planning in open-world scenarios. However, it is challenging to ground a LLM-generated plan to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xinrui Lin , Yangfan Wu , Huanyu Yang , Yu Zhang , Yanyong Zhang , Jianmin Ji

Dung's famous abstract argumentation frameworks represent the core formalism for many problems and applications in the field of argumentation which significantly evolved within the last decade. Recent work in the field has thus focused on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Wolfgang Dvořák , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Johannes Wallner , Stefan Woltran

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

Encoding finite linear CSPs as Boolean formulas and solving them by using modern SAT solvers has proven to be highly effective, as exemplified by the award-winning sugar system. We here develop an alternative approach based on ASP. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Mutsunori Banbara , Martin Gebser , Katsumi Inoue , Torsten Schaub , Takehide Soh , Naoyuki Tamura , Matthias Weise

State-of-the-art answer set programming (ASP) solvers rely on a program called a grounder to convert non-ground programs containing variables into variable-free, propositional programs. The size of this grounding depends heavily on the size…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has emerged as a promising paradigm in knowledge representation and automated reasoning owing to its ability to model hard combinatorial problems from diverse domains in a natural way. Building on advances in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mohimenul Kabir , Supratik Chakraborty , Kuldeep S Meel

Possibilistic answer set programming (PASP) extends answer set programming (ASP) by attaching to each rule a degree of certainty. While such an extension is important from an application point of view, existing semantics are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Kim Bauters , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Dirk Vermeir

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful logic-based programming language, which is enjoying increasing interest within the scientific community and (very recently) in industry. The evaluation of ASP programs is traditionally carried out…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Simona Perri , Francesco Ricca , Marco Sirianni

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a logic-based knowledge representation framework, supporting---among other reasoning modes---the central task of query answering. In the propositional case, query answering amounts to computing cautious…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mario Alviano , Carmine Dodaro , Matti Järvisalo , Marco Maratea , Alessandro Previti

We introduce a new flexible paradigm of grounding and solving in Answer Set Programming (ASP), which we refer to as multi-shot ASP solving, and present its implementation in the ASP system clingo. Multi-shot ASP solving features grounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Martin Gebser , Roland Kaminski , Benjamin Kaufmann , Torsten Schaub

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

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